Remember, for many Americans, due to family tradition, the Civil War is an ever present burning flame ~ so whatever these religious differences, and slights respecting them, are, that's nothing compared to my Great Great Grandfathers who spent a couple of years in Andersonville!
It was good to Free The Slaves. It was good to be a Republican. It was even better to Win the War.
It's good to have Murphy family relatives and ancestors ~ did you know that? Makes me confident that people in America can do anything.
Oh, they certainly can be.
Failure to rise to the stature of one destined for sainthood is, of course, inconvenient.
I'll get there eventually...once I get out of Purgatory.