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SwampG8r (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 02:00 AM Original message |
The Civil War is not only remembered in the south |
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CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 02:03 AM Response to Original message |
1. My dear SwampG8r! |
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SwampG8r (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 02:07 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. one trip to the peace memorial in tenn |
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DefenseLawyer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-10 01:35 PM Response to Reply #2 |
31. You can be very courageous and still be very wrong |
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Supersedeas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 09:51 AM Response to Reply #31 |
35. as if there are no individual acts of courage, because all frames have to be macro/global to satisfy |
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MrModerate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 02:12 AM Response to Original message |
3. It's true that people bash reenactors as if they were the reincarnation of Nathan Bedford Forrest. |
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Aristus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 12:44 PM Response to Reply #3 |
18. I don't think anyone disputes the notion that the Southerners fought with great courage. |
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MrModerate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 06:11 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. There's a quote along those lines (Lincoln was it?) that I've been trying to remember . . . |
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Staph (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 02:23 AM Response to Original message |
4. I am a Civil War re-enactor. |
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CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 02:35 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. What a great bit of history... |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 02:41 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. I agree (on both).... Twain never ceases to amaze me... |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 02:31 AM Response to Original message |
5. Historians say over 60,000 books have been published on the civil war... |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 02:33 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. I read the Team of Rivals and that was a comprehensive book |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 02:44 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Oh, yes... Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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TuxedoKat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 07:09 PM Response to Reply #5 |
25. Thanks for posting this |
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carolinayellowdog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 07:31 AM Response to Original message |
10. Some Southerners honor their Unionist ancestors, too |
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TNDemo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 07:52 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Yep. |
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Babel_17 (948 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 09:39 AM Response to Original message |
12. Nothing wrong with re-enacting |
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RegieRocker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 10:46 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Bullseye!!! |
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SwampG8r (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 12:45 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. i do. i am and this addresses them as well |
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Tsiyu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 10:27 AM Response to Original message |
13. It used to bother me a great deal |
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RegieRocker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 02:55 PM Response to Reply #13 |
20. Well said. |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 10:30 AM Response to Original message |
14. I lost relatives on both sides... |
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obxhead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
16. I don't understand the flagrant bashing of the south here |
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Recovered Repug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 07:11 PM Response to Reply #16 |
26. Simple. The South is primarily Red. |
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K8-EEE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-10 01:35 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. +1 |
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madinmaryland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
17. I think there are two different things going on... |
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JPZenger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 10:32 AM Response to Reply #17 |
38. Read the above post |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 03:01 PM Response to Original message |
21. Watching Ken Burns' Civil War should be mandatory in all US High Schools |
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MellowDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 06:24 PM Response to Original message |
23. "We lost it"... |
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fishbulb703 (492 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 06:49 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. That is just wrong. |
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MellowDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-10 01:03 PM Response to Reply #24 |
28. Not generally... |
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GoCubsGo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 08:29 AM Response to Reply #28 |
33. Thanks for posting the link to that map. |
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SwampG8r (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 08:05 AM Response to Reply #23 |
32. i will explain how people dont seperate themselves to |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-10 01:12 PM Response to Original message |
29. it was very moving to see all the flowers on the Lee |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-10 01:22 PM Response to Original message |
30. Re re-enacting and glorifying the South's defeat, |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 09:07 AM Response to Original message |
34. I have a friend, who is in the army, who loves reading about the Civil War. |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 10:17 AM Response to Original message |
36. The Civil War and the CSA are part of our history & *SHOULD* be remembered. |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 10:29 AM Response to Reply #36 |
37. I live near Glorietta Battlefield in NM, the most western battle in the Civil War. |
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JPZenger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 10:39 AM Response to Original message |
39. Plenty of Blame to Go Around |
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whogasa736 (40 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 10:49 AM Response to Original message |
40. Something to Consider |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-10 11:54 AM Response to Reply #40 |
41. "The war made the United States an *is*." |
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