This may come as a shock to you, my southern friend, but the discipline of history extends beyond the mere study of quaint viral emails that have been making their way around the web since Netscape 2.0. It's a nice email nonetheless.But you might want to open a book or two and learn even more.
Recant on this:
Evidently you consider these people deities, and completely forget they were mortal men. They were great men, but largely, they had the same faults as the rest of us; the same passions and the same weaknesses. Altruism is a crock of sh*t; sorry.
Admit this is misleading and quite stupid, and totally unfounded.
Then we can talk about "learning". We learned alot in 1865, how Yankees/socialist/statists can destroy individual states rights. Ya wanna start there? I'll admit it, you all did a "good job" on that, the states are powerless jokes now.
By the way, as much as I seem to detest your cynical yankee attitude you seem a worthy opponent. To bad I have to work for a living, I could spend more time freeping.