Politics follow culture today, so identifying yourself with a political party is pretty much tattooing a label on your forehead.
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Nice story and I do know these things happened. It’s sad that the Confederate flag - which used to be sold along with the Union at battlefields all over the east has been banned. This splintering is so dangerous to America.
I’m too much Mississippi and W. Michigan to EVER be so damn petty to ever have written such stuff on Facebook.
Seeing that civil war story seriously made me misty though. America was like that still just 35 years ago. We were like that 15 years ago for a brief moment too.
The ladies of Gray shared a common Christian heritage which created unspoken cultural norms, with their Southern counterparts. That bound them even though their sons were killing each other.
“While the nation certainly isn’t as polarized as it was during the 1860s,”
We absolutely are. This is a very divided time. In all honesty, one side is revolutionary socialist and truly despises everything we ever learned about our country as kids in school. Then their is our side that likes thanksgiving and all that comes with it.
One small example. the men who actually fought the civil war had many reunions/BBQ/picnics afterwards. One in 1913 was nearly as big as the battle. It was complete with a reenactment of Picketts Charge, only the confederates were met at the wall with cool drinks and handshakes.
Its a joke to see people today more mad about the confederacy than people who fought against it.
Waiting for the race baiting south bashing contingent here to show up and shite on the floor
A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War
In this riveting, character-driven history, one of our most respected historians traces the diseases in the public mind—the distortions of reality—that destroyed George Washington's vision of a united America and inflicted the tragedy that still divide's the nation's soul.
The US was more civilized in those days....there was a thing known as honor
Big differences in CWII and CWII. The concepts of honor, integrity, virtue were so intensely held one could almost look at CWII as a fight over which side was more virtuous. The north for abolition at any cost or the south for considering a foreign invasion the epitome of rude behavior and an insult to honor that required an answer.
CWII will be the ultimate in asymmetrical morality. The only winner will be the foreign entity that becomes the subsequent world power. We can hope that CWII leaves a nation so destroyed no foreign power would want it.
Interesting times.
Sorry, I don’t buy it. The Marxists are flat out evil, and anyone who sides with them is either evil as well, or profoundly stupid.
I can forgive the stupid, but only if they acknowledge their stupidity and get out of the way so smarter people can fix their mistakes. Until then, I’m lumping them in with the evil people they serve.
Hope the soldier wasn’t baptist. The Southern Baptists have banned possession of the Confederate Battle Flag by their members.
If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong ...
He was still an American soldier. I recall walking through the Ft Leavenworth cemetery in 1984 on Memorial Day and looking at all the flags. Then I came upon four graves with Confederate flags. Being from Georgia, my first thought was they are so far from home. This Army Officer saluted them, thought about how brave they must have been and moved on, but as you can see, I have never forgotten those four men. God bless their memories.
It was a different world back then. Everyone felt like an American, ....everyone. Children were taught how to shoot and handle guns safely, even at school or the Boy Scouts, which were welcome back then. I was a member of the NRA shooting club at 10 yo and carried my gun to the abandoned ice house to shoot targets in competition. I still have my jacket full of expert and marksman patches. I've shown it to my daughter that is now 31. She has heard me speak about the US her whole life, yet it seems she can't even imagine a world that thought the way we did then. She has no idea what it was like as she has never had a day when she wasn't in this hellish nightmare we call "modern culture".
As we watch mass shootings today, the "modern culture" ping pongs around from gun control to terrorism, to mental illness, ect. We have so many regulations today that the Second Amendment almost means nothing anymore. As we see here, if the authorities wanted your gun, you are most likely on some obscure list gathered up over the decades. What we are told is if you own a Confederate flag, you are a risk to society. If you are a Christian, you are a danger to abortion clinics and gay bars. If you have a gun, you are liable to go mental some morning and shoot your family and neighbors. What they always seem to miss is it's not guns,...we need better people. The people I grew up with all had guns, yet shootings were rare. There was mental illness, but it was rare. Keeping your baby was a given, because killing it was unthinkable.
What has changed from then till now? God has been removed from society, especially schools. Just a couple of generations since God has been banned and men have gone insane. They can't even decide if they are men or women by looking in their pants. Even apes realize what they are at an early age. We have no respect for life because we have murdered 65 million babies and now are considering killing old people that are no longer productive. We have many people blind to the difference between a "god" that murders Jews, infidels, homosexuals, women, and even others of the same belief, and the real God that loved mankind enough to give His own Son for them.
The bottom line is there is no amount of laws and regulations that can tame an individual full of demons. Banning the Confederate flag won't change any hearts and it boggles the mind that anyone thinks it can. Our system of maximum freedom is based on a religious and moral people. Anarchy is by definition freedom without moral limits. America will never be "America" again unless God is honored and revered and is put first above the "freedom" people seem to think they are due. As we get farther from God, it harder and harder to even find Christians to agree what "Christian" even means. What made America exceptional for over 230 years was the blessing of God, not smart politicians. As we reject God and His wisdom as a nation, there is nothing left but Satan and chaos. Thinking we are somehow different than Israel over thousands of years is ludicrous. Idols and immorality reaps bad kings and destruction and slavery.
Reading Leviticus 18:22-30 pretty much covers what's coming and we follow like lemmings to our own destruction. It has nothing to do with more gun laws. 2 Chron 7:13-22 pretty much spells it out and reveals the answer to the problems. What we need is better people to get less regulation and oppressive laws and to live in the peace of God.
The people of Gray and New Gloucester remain a wonderful and caring group.