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[Dixiejack]

On another forum here, the nicest thing that a member said about me was that I had the mentality of a troll. That was the way he disagreed with my posts. LOL  Like I told him, I am fine with him not agreeing with my opinion, but he was showing his ignorance by verbally attacking me. Intelligent differences of opinion are what makes these threads interesting and informative.

[williamlayton]

I ask questions that are sometimes cotroversial--not to stir anything but to hear what people think---sometimes my comments are to get folks to think.
We all have our opinions but I do enjoy hearing things from a different perspective.
I am a student of denominational thought--I like to hear the apologies from folks & I give mine.
This forum seemed stale and onesided is the reason I post some of the things I do and ask questions. This is a forum of the Civil War and it has members from both sides of the line.
I was raised under traditional outhern thought about the war--and society--but in college, as I studied and sought the history, I began to see another facet that just didn't jive with some or most of the traditional Southern thought.
I guess you could point a finger and yell liberal teaching but actually I was seeking a way to justify all that I had been taught.
I had as a mentor and department head a man from the South, Refsell was from Georgia as I recall.
I would read and write the reports he asked for and would drop by his office to chat when he had the time. We would argue some but he encouraged me and in some ways his arguements were challenges for me to think. I still remember those times fondly.
There is no doubt that there were hard feelings on both sides after the war---war has that effect on folks involved.
The history of this war has been so studied that I find it to be almost absurd that some--on both sides--would deny the causes and the results-----but they still do.
Blessings