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Brev. Brig. Gen'l
- Joined
- Feb 20, 2005
- Location
- Right here.
"The debate this last month about Confederate symbols—and about the whole damned history of the Confederacy, if truth be known—has raised questions that need to be asked, and not only about the Civil War: How do you honor brave men and women who fought to defend an evil institution? How do you dignify the memory of those who were killed, and who killed, in a war without a legitimate cause? Should they be honored at all? And if so, how?
"If we're going to answer that question—and as a Southerner, the father of a soldier, and a correspondent who has covered many wars, I think we should— then the first step toward honoring the fallen should be to tell the truth as best we can about the war in which they fell and the people who started it."
Read the full story at: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...ness-then-and-now.html?source=TDB&via=FB_Page
"If we're going to answer that question—and as a Southerner, the father of a soldier, and a correspondent who has covered many wars, I think we should— then the first step toward honoring the fallen should be to tell the truth as best we can about the war in which they fell and the people who started it."
Read the full story at: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...ness-then-and-now.html?source=TDB&via=FB_Page
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