See the link at Post #31. The article linked discusses the effect on the victims and their descendants quite extensively. It also discusses joint memorials raised by the church and descendants of the victims.
I also posted this the other day.
I have no ancestors who were involved in the MMMassacre but feel the shame and guilt based on being a member from the same church. (Not to digress but It shames me that Harry Reid claims Mormon status in the same way I assume it shames some Catholics that Kerry claims to be Catholic).
I guess I just find it hard to let go of. Its like the Church said in their official apology. Nothing justified the murder at MMM.
165 posted on 08/21/2007 4:09:58 PM PDT by Rameumptom (Gen X= they killed 1 in 4 of us) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 164 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]
“”I have no ancestors who were involved in the MMMassacre but feel the shame and guilt based on being a member from the same church. (Not to digress but It shames me that Harry Reid claims Mormon status in the same way I assume it shames some Catholics that Kerry claims to be Catholic). “”
That’s cool, when discussing the massacre, I think it is important for Mormons to remember it was we non Mormon American settlers that were murdered in mass by their church.
About the only argument that Romney supporters should be making is whether or not their religion’s highest leaders were involved,(in relation to the history, not his candidacy of course) it just doesn’t pay to defend the massacre itself by saying that those women and children may have deserved, or needed to be slaughtered.
In conversations about Little Big Horn I appreciate it when people’s tone changes a little bit, when I let them know that I am an army veteran and that as we discuss the battle, we should still remember that we are talking about dead American soldiers.
On these threads I would like it to become more clear that the movie portrays what may be the most horrible event in American history, the mass slaughter of American pioneers by people that only a few years before, would have considered themselves as just like the people they were destroying.
Your tagline: now THAT’s the PRESENT DAY tragedy of overwhelming magnitude in the US, and yet we sit here foaming about a 150 year old one!