[TigersEye]

“We light fire for the ancestors who have gone before us who were lynched,” a woman can be hearing saying in the video as another person attempts to ignite the small flag.

New York wasted too many good men in the Union Army.

[T-Bone Texan]

Many of the men New York sent to die in the War of Northern Aggression were not even citizens, but recent immigrants, mostly from Ireland but also Germany and a smattering of other Caucasian countries.

I partly blame the dynamic on wealthier (oftentimes American) men buying their way out of the war by paying a poorer (oftentimes foreign) man to take his place.