After all, the search and preservation of the Hunley artifacts, as well as the funeral itself, were paid for by U.S. taxpayers.
sick, twisted, check book morality. The Nazi's paid for the concentration camps. Should the Jews be happy about Swastikas flying over their graves? I'm NOT comparing the US flag or the US to the Nazi's. I'm criticizing his reasoning. Again, I don't support the critics of having the Stars and Stripes fly over these graves. I would be distrubed if it didn't, but for different reasons than this writer puts forward.
Also, the Hunley crew was born under the Stars and Stripes. The Confederacy was never an internationally recognized nation, so the crewmen also died as citizens of the United States.
he almost gets it here. The first sentance comes close. We, today, are all Americans, despite what happened in the period 1860 to 1865. The geniuses who came up with the Hunley were Americans. Americans who were in rebellion, but Americans. Then he gets into "international recognition" crap. That disqualifies his opinion by itself.
They were in rebellion, but they were still Americans.
Yep. Not a problem with this sentance.
This whole issue is an insult to all Southerners who fought under the U.S. flag before and since the Civil War.
No. This whole article is. Those Southerners who were in rebellion were not all racists out to defend slavery. Some, like General Lee, were patriots, first, last and always, who felt that their loyalty was to their "country" (in his case, Virginia) and not the federal government.
I have relatives who fought on both sides of the civil war. Some great, some small. I am proud of them all, though I believe that some of them were wrong. I also believe that the US federal government was right to suppress John Browns abolitionist terrorists, though I believe that their cause may have been just, though their methods misguided.
Attempts by modern "confederates" to deny the results and lessons of the civil war are misguided and wrong. Equally misguided are the attempts by the "enlightened" to demonize and "re-educate" those who disagree with them. Northerners (who I'm descnded from) are guilty of having aided an abeted the slave trade by profiting from it. Southerners (who I'm descnded from) are guilty of having proited from the slave trade that propped up their economy. Americans are to be proud of having fought a war whose effect, if not intent, was to put an end to legalized slavery in the United States. We taught the world that it was wrong. We Americans, north and south, set the stage for the abolition of slavery in the civilized world.
Of course, we still have the islamic world to deal with.
Bingo.
It should be remembered that the rebellion had few major military successes at all and -none- outside Virginia, excepting Chickamauga.
Of diplomatic and economic successes they had none at all.
Walt
I had not read this quotation before. Lincoln must have been a very, very good man then, because Grant pounded Lee into submission.
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Perspective: Die-hard Confederates should be reconstructed
Probably itching to send them off to 'reeducation camps' complete with barbed wire and brain washing sessions.
The writer makes several errors in fact regarding the war, which I will leave for others to discuss, as I am sure they have. I will only make the observation that a neo-Yankee is far, far worse than any neo-Confeerate could be.