[Grand Old Partisan]

Blue and Grey implies they were equivalent -- which is false. During the Civil War, American patriots enlisted in the United States Army and Navy, while American traitors joined the rebels.

[wardaddy]

My 14 year old daughter voluntarily sat thru the first half of Gods and Generals on VHS with me and Mrs Wardaddy last nite and endured my rambling commentary...lol

My wife's great great great uncle WP Barksdale shot the hell up out of your bunch on the banks in Fredericksburg....course ya'll got him later didn't ya?

I'm working overtime to deflect the efforts of your tribe with my own progeny...wish me luck!

[Ohioan]

Blue and Grey implies they were equivalent -- which is false. During the Civil War, American patriots enlisted in the United States Army and Navy, while American traitors joined the rebels.

So, you not only deny the plain meaning of legal terms in your absurd Constitutional argument, you deny the nobility of the Confederate Man at Arms.

Consider then these words from Douglas MacArthur's classic address at West Point, May 12, 1962:

The long gray line has never failed us. Were we to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray would rise from their white crosses, thundering those magic words: duty, honor, country.

As anyone who understands the context will explain to you, the first gray refers to the corps of cadets at West Point. The second, coupled with the blue, refers to the gallant Southerners--many of whom were West Point graduates--whose honor you besmirch.

You, Sir, are no patriot. The very term patriot, as George Washington used it, can never apply to you, since your mantle and purpose is one of sectional antagonism. There are few things which the greatest of all American Patriots warned against so clearly in his Farewell Address as the very sort of sectional politics that you advocate.

But then, you see yourself as a greater "patriot," I suspect, than were either Washington or MacArthur. Funny thing is, I suspect you would find few who would support such a notion.

William Flax

[Mr. Mojo]

During the Civil War, American patriots enlisted in the United States Army and Navy, while American traitors joined the rebels.

Irrational, simplistic, wrong.

Iow, so you.