To: SoCal Pubbie
"I guess you missed the part about Billibears reminding his "Yankee" coworkers about the glorious lost cause. Somehow the phrase "the pot calling the kettle black" comes to mind."
Not at all. In fact, it was your reply to him that prompted my reply to you. Hope I didn't make that too complicated.
I know how hard it is to face the fact that you won the war. It can be a very hard thing to accept, but being in massive denial over the plain fact that you won isn't healthy. What's the problem with admitting your side won? You may feel the disgrace of winning, and it may hurt you. But it's no disgrace. It's a fact. So suck it up, be brave and shout to the world, "WE WON! - AND I NO LONGER FEEL ASHAMED OF IT!"
To: Wampus SC
Actually, I think my reply to Billibears was pretty clear- a simple statement of fact, no denial, no shame. And since the war ended 139 years ago, and neither I nor anyone one this board had anything to do with it, there is no reason for anyone to say "we" won it, or "we" lost it. Some folks have a hard time accepting THAT fact, and prefer to live in an Antebellum time frame railing about reconstruction rather than the 21st century.
Not me though.
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