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Subject: [OM] Re: OT: Rehashing the American Civil War (was "E-series quality problems")
From: "Joel Wilcox" <jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 16:40:17 -0500
I don't.  My dad always said the thing that was really different
between the North and the South is that in the South a lot of whites
and blacks actually knew each other and had a society that involved
each other.  Each knew good people among the other.  In the North we
had/have ghettoes.  I've got no right to judge anybody on the basis of
where I live.

It was a magnificent, epic struggle.  It should never have happened.

The Civil War Memorial in this part of New France (Des Moines,
specifically) is a wonderful bastion of reconciliation, with a neked
goddess of peace with knockers that blew my mind as a fifth grader on
a school field trip.  I'll have to see if I have a decent photo of it.
 Maybe we can pull this little OT thread back to topic!

Joel W.

On 4/6/07, Walt Wayman <hiwayman@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Please don't mistake me for a Southern redneck racist -- well, maybe a 
> redneck sometimes. I was raised by a black nanny, who I called Aunt Violet. I 
> loved her to death. We lived between two churches, one Methodist, one 
> Baptist, and I learned to read by her taking me to the cemeteries and reading 
> the tombstones.
>
> It was an unnecessary war. Slavery was dying out anyway. Probably 90 percent 
> of the soldiers in the Confederate armies never owned a slave; they just felt 
> they were defending their homes.

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