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Thanks very much, Fred Nerks. - Just think about the enormous amount of damage and suffering they caused for ALL of humanity.

That will be ignored. It must be blamed on the red states, the southern states, that’s what shows that they are liberal trolls.

These words were part of an address given by the Rev. Landrum of the Second Baptist Church in Richmond on May 21, 1884. It was “Hollywood Day” commerating he re-interrment of Confederate soldiers from Seven Pines Cemetery to Hollywood Cemetery.

“....We live in a new South. Changes have taken place since these warriors laid themselves upon the alter of their country for service or sacrifice. What changes, social, political, moral, financial, wide-sweeping, revolutionary changes—changes unprecedented in the history of this or any other republic, ancient or modern! The South is conservative. Amid all these changes the South, in her devotion to her gallant sons, remains unchangeable. It may not be otherwise. Her’s is an inconsolable widowhood. True to her convictions in the past, she cannot repudiate them in the future. None the less, at the same time, is she loyal to the restored Union. She is at home again in the temple of her fathers. Pledging her solemn troth to peace in the hour when her armies surrendered to overwhelming numbers, the South has abided by the abitrament of the sword, She has never sought since, nor will ever have cause or occasion in the future to seek a severance of the cords binding together national solidarity. Once again we are united and, I hope, indissoluble confederacy, forming a grand and glorious democratic republic. Our flag waves from Maine to Florida and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The setting lustre of this May's sun glides the uniforms of blue and gray mingling as brothers in this requiem service. Soldiers are always magnanimous. Only they keep up sectional strife who were invisible in war and are now stern and invincible in peace. “The bravest are the tenderest, the loving are the daring.”
We will cherish this anniversary. It is the Easter of a fallen nation. Our children and children's children will perpetuate this tender and touching ceremonial. During every generation, let us hope, maids and matrons, young men and old men, will esteem it their high honor and sacred heritage to cover with floral tributes, to warm with their love and freshen with their tears those little hillock's on “fames eternal camping-ground.” The cemeteries are the shrines of the nation. Worthy to have lived and earned our reverence; worthy the fadeless crown which Confederate soldiers won on a hundred fields of glory; worthy the immortal men who gave themselves in life and death for us, for the honor of the South, for the rights of the States, for local self-government, for the principles of the Union as these were handed down to us by the fathers of our common country....”
—Daily Dispatch, May 22, 1884 source: Library of Congress.

Just thought I'd throw this into the mix. :-)