Less than a mile down the road from us are some "you may be redneck if your
house is mobile and your car is not" kind of people. They fly the
Confederate flag in their front yard among all of the wrecked cars and junk
piles. We hear them shooting all the time and I'm sure they are planning
for the overthrow of the government when someone will be coming to take
their guns. Sometimes it seems like 63 acres is not enough space.
Tina
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> CG wrote:
> > When the trumpet blew he just couldn't resist the urge to seek fame on
> the
> > battle field. He was lucky he came back in one piece and live to the ripe
> > old age of 70.
>
> Good point. A lot of very reasonable people signed up, fought and
> died. As is so often the case, what the politicians say and what the
> populace believe are two different things. What was written in the
> confederate constitution may not have really been applicable to what
> the population thought. I don't think it's proper to spit on their
> graves. An army does what it is told to do--even a volunteer one.
>
> It's also important to remember that we live in an "enlightened" time.
> But 100 years from now, what seems normal and acceptable to us today
> will be viewed quite differently.
>
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