I should've started that betting pool on whether you'd get it or not. ROTFL. Don't know? That's OK, since you're making progress.
"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."
I understand, really I do, why you'd think that about your reply. And there'd be no reason on Earth for you to rail about reconstruction, now, would there? Best evidence of progress is this:
"there is no reason for anyone to say "we" won it, or "we" lost it."
because it means you've advanced so far that you know there was no reason
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1125213/posts?page=93#93 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1125213/posts?page=114#114 And never was.
Since you've acknowledged there's no reason, I'm more encouraged that ever that you'll eventually get over winning, move on, and live in the 21st century.
:)