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Originally Posted by dean_acheson
the day was going so well, until this came up. 
Faulkner used to say that it was possible for every southern boy to go back in their minds to a time when the flags were unfurled, but the charge hadn't started yet.... maybe that is why it took so long to implement the 14th amendment...  |
That sounds like the drunken
antebellum version of "all real Americans love the sting of battle".
But serioulsly, going to the Gettysburg battlefield is a very sobering experience. Folks always says the WWI was the first modern war, but in many respects I think that honor goes to the American Civil War. If you look at the old pictures of the Southern cites ruined by the Union, you won't see pictures of cities like that until WWII.
It's very strange going to the South as a Yankee, but you can understand why so many folks are P.O.'d and you hear that "The South will Rise Again."
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