Amtrain wrote:
I was born on the South and am damned proud of that fact. Equally proud am I of my ancestors some of which fought for the South during the War.
For the last couple of years, I have watched monuments dedicated to Lee, Jackson, Stewart, and other generals fall at the hands of a ruthless mob or at the hands of cowardly administrations in city halls and on college campuses. After the monuments to the generals came down, next came the statues to the common soldiers.
Shame on all you houses CNN, (BS)NBC and Fox.
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I am 100% in agreement with you on this. I was an army brat living in Texas during WWll, but I'm native to Wisconsin. These ignorant b****rds pulled down and beheaded a statue of Col. Hans Christian Heg on our state capital lawn. Heg was an abolitionist and commanded the 15th Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment and 3rd Brigade of the 1st Division, XX Corps, Army of the Cumberland, during the Civil War. He died at the age of 33 from being gut shot at Chickamauga. I had ancestors on both sides during the conflict. This was a war that pitted brother against brother. After it was over reunions were held that joined veterans of both sides. S***ery ended long ago, but states rights and individual rights are still in danger. And all of this for a man who had a criminal past.