South Carolina to mark the start of Civil War - From SC newspaper

[RamboLiberal]

Starting this month, South Carolina will commemorate the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War with a series of events that underscore this state’s central role in that titanic, tragic struggle.

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Two of the first events scheduled to mark the anniversary – a privately sponsored secession ball Monday in Charleston and an effort to display the original Ordinance of Secession – show just how divisive the Civil War remains.

The ball, organized by the Confederate Heritage Trust and sponsored by the Sons of Confederate Veterans, has been criticized as a celebration of treason and slavery.

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He learned first-hand how divisive the war remains when he sought to have the Ordinance of Secession displayed.

First, he said he tried to have the document displayed at First Baptist Church in Columbia, where it was drafted on Dec. 17, 1860. But the church – whose website notes secessionists met there by order of the S.C. Legislature, “not by invitation of the church” – had no interest in displaying the document, Emerson said.

Read more: http://www.thestate.com/2010/12/19/1611812_sc-to-mark-start-of-momentous.html#ixzz18gDEhvCX

Sure let's celebrate the start of a war that killed nearly 700,000 Americans, a culture that enslaved human beings, and rent apart this nation that still reverberates to this day!

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[HopeHoops]

2. How do they plan to celebrate, by starting up again?

:shrug:

[bbinacan]

3. I'm reminded of this saying.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it

[nxylas]

4. It said "commemorate", not "celebrate"

But knowing South Carolinians (which I do, having lived there for 6 years), it'll amount to the same thing. They're awfully proud of having been the first state to secede from the Union.

[left is right]

6. A "secession ball" sounds like

a celebratory event to me

[NoGOPZone]

5. Are they also going to display the Declaration of Causes of Secession

and its endorsement of slavery?

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/South_Carolina_Declaration_of_the_Causes_of_Secession