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Willielmus's avatar

There were also black Confederate soldiers. Look up Holt Collier.

Willielmus's avatar

Harry Truman was a member of the KKK from 1920-1922. Why is his statue still in Independence Square, Independence, MO?

Joseph's avatar

and dry them and pound them into powder and add them to selected bags of rose food and sell them to fucking idiots who think this kind of thing works. We will never speak of it again.

YourNameHere's avatar

Are you sure, Shy, because my co-worker keeps telling me she is Satan.

doktorzoom's avatar

Say hello to my little Banhammer. There are many like it, but only this one is mine.

Also, you're either lying or misinformed about the notion that Congress declared Confederate veterans to be U.S. military veterans. That's a complete myth. In 1958, Congress did pass an act to enable pensions to be paid to the few surviving widows of Confederate veterans, and to allow aging Confederate vets to receive VA benefits. It did not, however, retroactively confer U.S. veteran status on the Confederate soldiers themselves, seeing as how they fought for a foreign nation that was at war with the United States of America.

L. Ron Pony  🇺🇦's avatar

Who was he? I've read a bit of Poe's literary criticism but I can't think who that would have been. Just curious, you understand.

L. Ron Pony  🇺🇦's avatar

'We.' *snickers* You and your imaginary friend are busy little fuckers, aren't you?

CognizantImpiety's avatar

Not with their new coach, that's for sure.

L. Ron Pony  🇺🇦's avatar

Hey, cutie-pie, is there a point in there somewhere or are you just sputtering in impotent rage that your hero is being called the skidmark on humanity's underwear that he always was?

CognizantImpiety's avatar

That's a really good idea.

CognizantImpiety's avatar

It already is the law of the land, it is called Southern Baptist Convention.

CognizantImpiety's avatar

The War of Northern Aggression...

CognizantImpiety's avatar

You missed Hoff's point that the reason most Southerners fought was because the North invaded the South.

The reasons the North invaded were certainly valid, but soldiers fight fairly fiercely to protect themselves, their buddies and their homes. Politics rarely has anything to do with the reasons the grunts go to war.

CognizantImpiety's avatar

So there must be scads of documentation about Forrest, Sherman and the Fort Pillow Massacre.

BTW, if Forrest couldn't stop his troops from massacreein' the surrendered troops, how much of a leader was he exactly?

"Oh my, our boys are slaughtering those POWs. Ah should stop them, but ah'm havin' the vapors today and ah just cain't do it."

CognizantImpiety's avatar

You mean in the year 2525? That's only 510 years away.

CognizantImpiety's avatar

Sounds like Sherman was worse than Forrest, where's the screaming?