Oh, really?
Posted on 05/30/2010 7:03:19 PM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
This is a great concert and a wonderful paean to Lincoln.
But there were no Gray Dead.
Is the South forgettable...is it only the forgotten losing side!
This war was not about civil rights...it was about power.
The cotton produced in the South was sent to the North. The crops of the South fed the North.
I don't blame the North...but why would the North still blame the South.
Have we not done our part!
ping
The very first memorial day saw the Confederate dead
treated with reverence, there is no reason not to today
Now compare what you see presented in today's "history books" with the actual recorded history.
Considering Sharpton and Jackson........they would demonstrate against the Southern soldiers being represented. What should have happened is the South should have been represented and to tell those that don’t like it to go suck an egg.
“they were for the rights of Blacks “
Sure they were!! That’s why the kept them as slaves
The Blue And The Gray
Francis Miles Finch (1827-1907)
By the flow of the inland river,
Whence the fleets of iron have fled,
Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver,
Asleep are the ranks of the dead:
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment-day;
Under the one, the Blue,
Under the other, the Gray
These in the robings of glory,
Those in the gloom of defeat,
All with the battle-blood gory,
In the dusk of eternity meet:
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgement-day
Under the laurel, the Blue,
Under the willow, the Gray.
From the silence of sorrowful hours
The desolate mourners go,
Lovingly laden with flowers
Alike for the friend and the foe;
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgement-day;
Under the roses, the Blue,
Under the lilies, the Gray.
So with an equal splendor,
The morning sun-rays fall,
With a touch impartially tender,
On the blossoms blooming for all:
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment-day;
Broidered with gold, the Blue,
Mellowed with gold, the Gray.
So, when the summer calleth,
On forest and field of grain,
With an equal murmur falleth
The cooling drip of the rain:
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment -day,
Wet with the rain, the Blue
Wet with the rain, the Gray.
Sadly, but not with upbraiding,
The generous deed was done,
In the storm of the years that are fading
No braver battle was won:
Under the sod adn the dew,
Waiting the judgment-day;
Under the blossoms, the Blue,
Under the garlands, the Gray
No more shall the war cry sever,
Or the winding rivers be red;
They banish our anger forever
When they laurel the graves of our dead!
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment-day,
Love and tears for the Blue,
Tears and love for the Gray.
It lasts because the human desire for freedom lasts.
America is the current embodiment of such freedom...as long as freedom is celebrated, America will still be the subject of such celebration.
And those who have given their lives for such freedom will be standing by...looking down on that to which they have given their all!
Those who inherited the victory are of a very different class of people from the immediate victors and have not their class. To them it is "winner takes all" and given a chance they will for a certainty Take All with any excuse they can conjure up. Versailles is a model.
America -- a great idea, didn't last.
Sad war! Lost a great uncle on the Union side at Gettysburg & several from same family wounded at other places. Best thing to do is learn from it & move on...
The South didn't create slavery...
And there are many in the South who didn't own slaves and who have fought to free slaves.
My own mother spent her life working to build the Head Start Program...only to be accused by someone just like you of being a Southerner, and guilty without trial.
Now I think Head Start was a stupid idea...but that was your idea, not ours.
Your comment makes me regret my defense.
Again...shame on you (mostly for making a person regret coming to your defense!).
Do not forget that May 31 was also the date that the Boers signed the Vereeniging Peace Treaty which ended the Anglo-Boer War but cost the Boers their internationally recognized Boer Republics. This date was also celebrated as Union Day: when South Africa was created & Republic Day: when South Africa was turned into a nominal republic.
The south didnt create it.
They just hung onto it the longest, I’m sure because they fought so hard to get it eliminated?
Oh, really?
My family is also from the north and the south.
The South has done its part to maintain our union!
They deserve better than to be insulted for a long past war.
Say what?
Thanks to your Great Uncle and his family for thier service to the United States.
For many, many years, even into the fifties, it was not celebrated in the South. It wasn't a school holiday nor a banking holiday. Nor did state or local government employees get the day off.
Only the in the past fifty years has Memorial Day become a truly national holiday.
There are many in your ranks who would do their best to tear it apart today.
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