When they are through with us, they will turn on you, these people who revile us. They will call for a new flag, reparations, and you will be made to pay dearly for the sins of your fathers, just as we are being ask to.
You will be ask to denounce your great grand fathers and Uncles and even the founding fathers as racists men with no character. It will be your history books that are revised and sanitized to fit the PC crowd, It is happening already.
My views and convictions are the front line defense to preserve your views and convictions, can't you see that?
Please point out, in any post I have ever made on this forum, where I have suggested that Southern honor and valor should not be respected or that your right to argue about what the cause of secession was should be restricted.
I myself probably have Confederate soldiers in my ancestry and more on my wife's side. I respect that these men firmly believed they were fighting for the right. I just happen to disagree with them, and apparently with you, as to whether they were correct in this belief.
However, I absolutely stand with you that these men should be honored for their valor, which was almost unparalleled in the history of the world.
I do strongly object to those Southern partisans who apparently believe that the best case for their cause can be made by denigrating those on the other side. This is equally wrong.
Why cannot we recognize that most, on both sides, fought for what they thought was right? That incredible courage and nobility was exhibited by many on both sides? That the great tragedy of this war was that good men fought and died on both sides? It would have been much less of a tragedy, in the true sense of the term, if it had been a battel of true good against true evil.
BTW, I do not belive, nor have I ever suggested, that the battle flag of the South should not be flown as an expression of respect for the valor and honor of those who fought under it, regardles of how much I disagree with the cause it represented.