[BnBlFlag]

And many G.D. Yankees want to dishonor their memories.

[AnnaZ]

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[varon]

BTTT

[Commander8]

Hoorah For Dixie.

[Centurion2000]

Bump for the South

[ccmay]

Someone needs to tell this cracker to switch to decaf.

-ccm

[redbaiter]

No comment on the rest of it, but this phrase is a keeper: public fool system

[dasboot]

Many of the Union soldiers, while deserving scorn for allowing themselves to be duped into dying for this ignoble "preservation of the Union" shtick, deserve pardon; for they were acting honorably for all they knew.

Rather, let us recall with greater contempt the unctious, self-rightious, opportunistic Northern lawyer/politicians who, knowing better, signed the death warrants for a generation of good men , shit on the sacrifice of the Patriots of '76, and kicked the Constitution in the balls for the sake of Nationhood and bankers.

Super Massachusetts BUMP TO THE TOP.

Finally, let us reserve some enmity for our contemporaries who yet apologize, rationalize, and justify this death of liberty by quoting from the annals of the victors rather than thinking for themselves. Sheep! I wave my private parts at you!

[Free the USA]

Good post thanks

[Shooter 2.5]

That's the way it goes. Win some, lose some.

They should have picked their own cotton.

[DeaconBenjamin]

Hurrah! Hurrah! For Southern rights hurrah!

[x]

2002 isn't 1865. Telescoping the two together distorts and obscures more than it reveals. Freedom has many enemies. Some may even claim to be its friends. It's not simply the same battle over and over again.

Radically change history at some point and you may avoid the problems we have now, but you won't create a utopian world without its own problems, dangers and injustices.

Your rebels may have thought they were fighting for their own freedom, and may even have been right about that, but their battle wasn't the same as our contemporary conflicts.

They weren't fighting for my freedom -- and I'd bet that most Americans today feel the same way. Had they won some of us would have had different masters. Some things would be better and some worse, but I doubt we would be any freer or happier today than we have been.

Most Americans respect the Confederate Army because they fought bravely and persistently for a cause that they thought was just. But portraying their Unionist opponents as forces of tyranny or their revolutionary secessionist cause as our own defies good sense and erodes good will.

[sphinx]

Fort Griffen? Sounds like you're describing the assaults on Forts Gregg and Whitworth. Griffen=Gregg?

[BnBlFlag]

A big Southern bttt!