The CSS Hunley is not in the news, but Confederate relics are. I've been to Charleston exactly once--about 20 years ago before the wreck was raised. If I were to go back (and chances are that I will), I'll go straight away to the museum which houses the wreck.
Sunday, June 21, 2015
Confederate Artifacts of National Importance
The CSS Hunley is not in the news, but Confederate relics are. I've been to Charleston exactly once--about 20 years ago before the wreck was raised. If I were to go back (and chances are that I will), I'll go straight away to the museum which houses the wreck.
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No generation can erase the past anymore than Bruce can be a woman... but that doesn't mean we ain't gonna try ;)
We crossed the border of Georgia and Florida about 20m ago. We should be home around 2 to 3 am
Right, wrong, or indifferent, the Confederacy is part of our history even if, as did mine, your forebears fought for the Union or weren't even here at the time.
I love how the nitpickers (and you know who you are) say any sort of admiration, empathy, or what-have-you regarding the lost cause is some kind of treason because they think it puts everybody else in a corner.
As if at least one really gives a damn about patriotism
Take the song, "Dixie".
Written by a Union man in 1859 who never really forgave the Rebs for appropriating his song (a similar situation ensued with "Lili Marlene").
On Abe Lincoln's playlist - the last song he ever requested.
The nitpickers would make a big deal about liking the song, but they'd have to get past Abe.
A more recent problem for them might be what happened in 1944 when the band of a black engineer regiment stayed up all night to play for Merrill's Marauders as they marched down the Burma Road, something much appreciated by the Marauders.
One of the songs played?
Dixie.
The Hunley was the first submersible to successfully sink a ship. She herself sank afterwards, but the deed was done. I've also long been fascinated with Bushnell's Turtle which was used against the British during the Revolution. It also hasn't escaped me how the Little Boy and Fat Man outwardly resembled the Hunley and Turtle, respectively. Coincidentally, of course, but form followed function as it were.
The left wants to treat the Civil war and the Confederacy as an indictment against the right and conservatives as a means to create revisionist history by either claiming the Democrat Slave Owning and Secessionist South doesn't lay on their shoulders or by trying to extinguish it all like ISIS has been doing.
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