re: Civil War Confederate veteran interview

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You'd think we'd be past this, but then I realize that our grandfathers lived during the time of the Lost Cause and also listened to the stories from their Confederate grandfathers. So this history is still really tangible.

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It's understandable.

An entire generation of men was neutered at Appomattox, and the world watched. The north then spent the next few decades rubbing it in their faces. So they invented a story in which they were the real victims.


That's how you turn what should be a shameful chapter in our history into a source of pride. That's how you end up with statues of dead traitors being constructed all over the south 40, 50 years after the surrender. That's how multiple states still had some kind of confederate symbol on their state flag into the 21st century.

You can't talk to a confederate apologist about it, because you're going up against 100 years worth of dogma. You'd have more luck convincing a brick wall that it's made of water.