Something for the weekend. Dixie sung by Bob Dylan which seems appropriate for the 160th anniversary of the surrender ceremony at Appomattox. I would note that President Lincoln liked the song, and he called for it to be played, “as a legitimate prize for war”, when a celebrating crowd came to the White House after Lee’s surrender.
Bonus:
Thank you. I lost many ancestors in that war, Slaveholder’s not a one, as were seventy five per cent of the Southern population. Genuine disagreements and respect for others beliefs helped heal the nation. We need more of that attitude today. The attacks on our monuments would be condemned by most of the participants in that unfortunate event, if they had a voice.
What saddens me about the removal of statues and monuments
is that many of them were equivalent of grave markers. Case in point is the Reconciliation monument in Arlington National Cemetery which had several bodies buried under the foundation.
They who take down statues and rename holidays are pure ignorant. Columbus Day is now Indigenous Native Day. Really, celebrating cannibalism?
Francis Parkman wrote an early history of the United States. In it he wrote of the Iroquois catching a Mohawk mother and child. The Iroquois tied the mother to a tree, roasted her child and ate him before her eyes.
Celebrating ignorance day.