[BroJoeK]

StoneWall Brigade: "I am going to interrupt the tariff discussion for a second, to tell everyone that the effort to remove the statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest has failed."

I've mentioned before one of my great-grandfathers, fresh off the boat, served the Union in the western theater, had encounters with Forrest.
Thank God, both lived to tell the stories.

[DiogenesLamp]

I've mentioned before one of my great-grandfathers, fresh off the boat, served the Union in the western theater, had encounters with Forrest. Thank God, both lived to tell the stories.

Irish? Poor saps. Dragooned into fighting a war against people who had done them no wrong.

And they say the Union was against slavery.

[jmacusa]

So the statue of the treasonous, racist, anti-Catholic bigot who was the first Grand Wizard of the KKK still stands. Sad day.