As my wife says:


People will revise history in order to make it more acceptable to themselves.  And that is the difference between the American Flag and the Confederate Flag.  Those who fly the Confederate Flag will make excuses.  "It was the times!"  "It was about State's Rights, not slavery!"  "It was about Tariffs!"  They choose to ignore that slavery was the central issue for the South's secession.  It's true many who fought for the South did not own slaves.  Many of them did however aspire to one day own slaves themselves.  Many fought for their country "right or wrong".   Slavery was by no means a minor issue, and anyone trying to spread it as such is only participating in historical revisionism.  


 

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