Get over it, Paul.
DFM
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From: "Paul Finkelman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: End of the War of Northern Aggression


> The subject line is amusing.  Is the "war of Northern aggression" the
> one that was started with treasonous former officers of the United
> States of America began firing at U.S. Army troops stationed  in a fort
> built by the tax payers of the entire nation to protect the city of
> Charleston from foreign invaders?  That was the battle where a brave and
> courageous southern-born commander defended his flag against an
> unwarrantend and unprovoked attack by men who had been trained at West
> Point, at tax payer expense, and then took off their uniforms, put on
> the uniforms of another army, and attacked their former comrades.  The
> would-be new nation was led by man who had also been educated at West
> Point, served in the United States Army, and turned traitor, and made
> war on his own country. 
> 
> It is worth remembering that that Davis, Lee, and the other traitors
> took the same oath when they entered West Point that American soldiers,
> marines, sailors, and airmen/women take when they enter  military
> service today.  
> 
> Paul Finkelman
> President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law
>     and Public Policy
> Albany Law School
> 80 New Scotland Avenue
> Albany, New York   12208-3494
> 
> 518-445-3386 
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> Today is April 9th. 142 years ago, today the Civil war ended at
> Appomattox,
> Virginia.
> Robert E. Lee, General CSA 
> Surrendered the Army Of Virginia and ended the Civil War
> 
> April 9, 1865: VA-K157 Surrender at Appomattox
> Description:
> At the McLean house at Appomattox, two miles north, took place the
> meeting
> between Lee and Grant to arrange terms for the surrender of the Army of
> Northern Virginia. This was at 1:30 P.M. on Sunday, April 9, 1865.
> Conservation & Development Commission, 1929
> 
> Location:
> US 460 (eastbound), west of Appomattox
> Surrender at Appomattox
>