I wouldn't run in the next meeting and say Grant's #1, though.
It was one thing to fight the war, and be on the wrong side of the issue. That's a debate I fight in historical circles.
But the fact that the descendents of men who fought and died, gallantly - and who in the end were Americans - want to preserve the memory of their ancestors and honor their valor...that I have no problem with and I think they have every right to do so...and no one has the right to tell them to take down their flags or remove their names from hospitals and schools or tear down their monuments.
I argue quite often with those who seek the removal of the Confederate battleflag from every place it flies. It is not a racist symbol. It is a battleflag and men fought and died under it.
The fact that some backwoods, redneck, inbred morons with two teeth want to wear white pointy hoods and happen to wave the "Stars & Bars" doesn't make the Confederate battleflag a racist symbol. The Klan waves and flies the American flag too, and as I often ask, does that make the American flag a racist symbol too?
Anyway, my support for Grant and the Union, and occassionally reminding "Lost Cause" diehards who want to besmirch certain Union generals because it makes them feel better, doesn't extend to besmirching the southern generals and leaders or besmirching the gallant men who fought and died in one of the worst wars the world has ever seen.
Most of the SCV men I've met are gentlemen, and quite level headed about the war and its outcome.
if he came to our camp and said that, he'd get a better response than the fellow who recently spoke there and told us what a great leader me lincoln was!
free dixie,sw
if he came to our camp and said that, he'd get a better response than the fellow who recently spoke there and told us what a great leader mr lincoln was!
free dixie,sw