[Tupelo]

While I am in no way disagreeing with the writer, he seems to have forgotten a lesson, I learned during a tour of Shiloh.

“Winners get National Cemeteries and the narrative, while the losers get a common mass grave and scorn.”

Spoken by a man who had at least two relatives buried in that mass grave.

[Verginius Rufus]

At Concord, near the bridge where the fighting took place on April 19, 1775, there is a small memorial to the British soldiers who died there. My sympathies are entirely on the side of the Revolutionaries (I had an ancestor on the American side at Yorktown), but I found it poignant--these men died so far from home, doing their duty...in support of a pigheaded king and an arrogant Parliament.

A famous British scholar, now deceased, once came to speak in the US and revealed his connection to American history--he was descended from an illegitimate son of Lord Cornwallis.

[wardaddy]

"Spoken by a man who had at least two relatives buried in that mass grave."

Spoken with ease I might note