Reply #24: The War Between the States or the Civil War, whichever moniker [View All]

one prefers, is a part of US history. That can never be changed. There is much to bewail on both sides of the Mason Dixon line. For example, Sherman's March through Georgia was a totally hellacious mark on our country. Many people lost their lives and their homes, rich and poor, white and black. The Reconstruction was both good and bad because mankind is both. Some people came to the South to help, others to rape and harm. Robert E. Lee was an honorable man and deserves recognition as such. If the University of Texas does not wish a statue of him, that is its choice, but a statue of Lee or Jefferson Davis or any other Southerner is in no way a statement against anyone (unless a modern mindset so insists.) These men are historical Americans, with good and bad traits just like all of us. Can we really project how we would have acted had we been born into that world, either North or South? Being from a border state, I know how much was suffered, brother against brother, father against son, etc. It was not an easy time to live a life of certainty about right and wrong.