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Offline 1911crazy

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Hero's of the war not treated the same.....
« on: June 07, 2012, 08:56:48 AM »
My wife took a college classroom trip to see Grants tomb.  Its dirty and covered with graffitti.   General Lee/s looks awesome, nice and clean, well respected.
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Re: Hero's of the war not treated the same.....
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2012, 04:26:20 PM »
Another glaring example of the South being better than the North.  I know too many Yankees who are rude and disrespectful.

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Re: Hero's of the war not treated the same.....
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2012, 01:54:22 AM »
what a crock of bs, the south is no better when it comes to manners. i know what you mean, you would think oboma would keep them clean as with out the civil war he may well be picking cotton. and grant was a hard driving general who fought  lee head to head and beat him,forcing lee to give up.  the truth is the south just did not have enough of what it took to fight a long drawn out war, japan was in the same boat in ww-2. eastbank.
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Re: Hero's of the war not treated the same.....
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2012, 01:17:04 PM »
Quote from: SwampThing762 on June 07, 2012, 04:26:20 PM
Another glaring example of the South being better than the North.  I know too many Yankees who are rude and disrespectful.

ST762
uh ST, I'm from the north and I don't know anyone who is a vandal.
when I'm in public, I'm never rude or disrespectful to anyone.
If I had to guess, I'd say that maybe the vandalism at Grants tomb "could" be people from the south since they are still fighting the war.  southerners do go up north on vacation you know.
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I love the south, but I also love the north. they comprise the U.S.A.
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Re: Hero's of the war not treated the same.....
« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2012, 06:45:48 AM »
Very sad about Grants tomb being defiled. The respect he showed to Lee and our Southern boys at the end shows he deserves better!
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Re: Hero's of the war not treated the same.....
« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2012, 12:06:56 AM »
Quote from: SwampThing762 on June 07, 2012, 04:26:20 PM
Another glaring example of the South being better than the North.  I know too many Yankees who are rude and disrespectful.

ST762

My family has been in Texas since the 1840's and I must disagree with you.
Good manners do not start or stop at the Mason-Dixon line, obviously.
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Re: Hero's of the war not treated the same.....
« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2012, 08:44:49 AM »
Quote from: SwampThing762 on June 07, 2012, 04:26:20 PM
Another glaring example of the South being better than the North.  I know too many Yankees who are rude and disrespectful.

ST762
We do have more rich snobs here who think there rich.  Being rich isn't the amount of money you have.  Its the family and freinds who we keep company with that makes us rich.  I never knew there were upper, middle and lower class people.  I still don't get it.   I thought we were all the same people. Disrespectful is a big word but i think your right we just don't respect each other nowadays we have lost that upbringing.
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Re: Hero's of the war not treated the same.....
« Reply #7 on: August 10, 2012, 03:10:41 PM »
I'm researching the post civil war era as part of an historical novel about the post civil war South and I am impressed with the tremendous problems that Southern people had to face. 


Northern "heros" returned  to victory parades, intact cities, farms and factories.  They were "heros" for no other reason than they had the good fortune to be on the winning side.

Returning Confederate soldiers faced devastation,  a shattered economy and malnutrition, not to mention and arrogant and oppressive occupation Army and the challenge of living with emancipated Negros.

I have far more respect for the Southerners than the Yankess.
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