re: Uh oh, some people in Georgia are offended over a license plate

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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.

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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.