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re: Uh oh, some people in Georgia are offended over a license plate
Posted on 2/21/14 at 7:55 am to RockEmSockEm
Posted on 2/21/14 at 7:55 am to RockEmSockEm
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Those are the types of Americans we should be proud of IMO.
Are you suggesting that AMERICANS must all be proud of the same people and ONLY those same people?
I'd rather live in an America where one is free to be proud of Lincoln OR Booth. Now, I'll choose to be friends of the former...not the latter. But, GAWDDAMN, I do not want to have Americans have to display their pride in only the "committee sanctioned worthy" people.
I admit that I get a LITTLE discomforted by some of the "rebel flag" displaying things. But, I am thankful that I live in a place that allows others to do things that discomfort me.
My dad taught me that I have every right to be offended. But, NO ONE owes me a damned thing for it. Good people (defined as people I'd care to have as friends or at least think well of) will apologize because they are worthy of my friendship. But, not a damn one OWES it to me.
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Posted on 2/21/14 at 7:59 am to BlackHelicopterPilot
You are on a roll this am. 
Posted on 2/21/14 at 8:24 am to BlackHelicopterPilot
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My dad taught me that I have every right to be offended. But, NO ONE owes me a damned thing for it.
I sincerely hope that you are not offended that I am proud of my great-grandparents, and their parents, who took up arms for the CSA.
I am glad the war resulted in the preservation of the union and the ending of slavery, but I'll be goddamned if I will be ashamed of my ancestors who put their lives on the line to defend their homelands.
The only one of those veterans who I actually was alive to meet had some great stories about those days. They and the 'blue boys' were just the same - his favorite story was about this union soldier that seemed to get 'captured' all the time because the confederates would share their tobacco with him. When he got low, he would 'get lost' and wander into their camp. Sometimes he would bring liquor. They'd turn him loose the next day.
IIRC, my ggf was one of the last 50 civil war veterans left alive. He died in the late '40s.
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