[gcruse]

His Republican challenger wanted to bring it
back, to honour, he said, 300,000 Confederate 'veterans'.

Why the quotation marks, Mr Hutton?  Are casualties
in a losing war not veterans?  What do you call your
dead redcoats from the War of American Independence?
Lackies?

[Rose in RoseBear]

His Republican challenger wanted to bring it back, to honour, he said, 300,000 Confederate 'veterans'.

Why the quotation marks, Mr Hutton? Are casualties in a losing war not veterans? What do you call your dead redcoats from the War of American Independence? Lackies?

No ... they call them Hessians ... <grin>