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1. almost 14 years ago on Doonesbury

   seed_drill said, 5 days ago

   The fact that there are at least as many Confederate flags as American flags flying from lower class white’s homes and emblazoned on vehicles is also a cause for concern. ———————————————————————————–

   Fact? Not only is your remark stupid, its not fact. How do you know someone whose flying a Confederate flag from thier house is lower class? One fact for sure, is that you just proved yourself ignorant!

2. almost 14 years ago on Doonesbury

   GT is not only poking fun at reenactors as a whole, but bigotry towards the South. And I can’t believe the liberal bleeep that has been posted by some here as well.

   As a former Yankee, who was blinded with Northern teachings that the War was all about slavery, I now know that it wasn’t. It doesn’t take much people, to pick up books and read the South’s side of the story. And yes, there are two sides to every story. The victors always right the history of it, and of course will not make themselves look bad.

   Yankee schools place an image that the South was bad, and that every Southerner owned slaves. Not true. 98% of the Confederate soldiers didn’t even own slaves. The North owned slaves as well. But most Yankee’s today won’t point that out. Barabare Frichie the famed Unionist who flew her Union flag out a window in MD as the Confederate Army marched through, owned slaves. It’s on the 1860 census of Fredericksburg, MD. General Grant himself owned slaves. The Emancimation Proclamation only freed slaves in the South. Not the North.

   It is sad that many don’t know the true history of our past.

   As to the nimrods who think reenactors are just nerds or geeks, get a better understanding before passing judgement. Our whole purpose is to teach about our past, both military and civilian life. Since many school books don’t seem to do this.