Pop said hack if you may, please watch where you spit cause you can’t take it kcah.

I’d agree with allowing a Union month, except every month is Union month, because history is written by the victor. Same reason we have Black history month and no White history month.

Actually the men that fought in the Civil War from either side were probably the last real free men in the United States. It’s been all down hill from there.

African Slavery in America.

That some desperate wretches should be willing to steal and enslave men by violence and murder for gain, is rather lamentable than strange. But that many civilized, nay, Christianized people should approve, and be concerned in the savage practice, is surprising, and still persist, though it has so often been proved contrary to the light of nature, to every principle of Justice and Humanity, and even good policy, by a succession of eminent men, and several late publications.” – Thomas Paine, African Slavery in America, 1775.

Although the Civil War, like most wars, was wholly unnecessary – it would have been cheaper to simply purchase their freedom, as even Abraham Lincoln seriously considered doing – I think it’s important to remember one’s origins and history. Even the parts that make you squirm or, I’m sure is the case with some folks, long for days past.

No matter what blood line or nationality is yours, you can be rest assured that there’s plenty of darkness in your past. It just so happens that this is relatively recent, and early on in our own short national history.

If one wishes to commemorate this indecent part of our history, it should be done in the most somber and repentant way. Certainly nothing to celebrate. While southerners, as all Americans, should feel proud of their heritage and the sacrifices made by their forefathers, perhaps ‘southern history month’ would be a more appropriate name for it, if that’s what they wish to celebrate.

The Confederacy was defined by it’s addiction to slavery, their soldiers no less heroic in their deaths than those of the Union – only that their cause was wrong. That’s the important thing to remember.

One thing all Americans should share is a moment of silence for the 618,000 men and a number of women that lost their lives in this mindless conflagration all based on economics and not slavery as most would believe. The subject of slavery fanned the flames of the conflagration through Harriet Beecher Stowe’s seminal series titled “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin

The true story of the civil war revolved around “King Cotton” and its derivative enrichment of the North, not about those that slaved to pick the cotton in the sweltering sun under the yoke of slavery.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton

Carl Nemo **==