So lemme get this straight.  Descendents of southerners who lived through the invasion need to get over it but descendents of blacks and Indians don't?
   
  

Anne Pemberton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
  Henry,

Apparently, some people do not perceive the need to "get over it", they just 
inflict that flippancy to those they disrespect.

Never mind that Virginians "laid waste " to the lives, homes, and lands of 
the Native Americans. That was OK. But for Lincoln to respond to the attack 
of the southern terrorists, was certainly indecent of him. He should have 
just let those terrorists have their way, as they did in the countryside of 
Pennsylvania.

Anne

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henry Wiencek" 
To: 
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 4:02 PM
Subject: Long memories


This just in on the AP wire:

RICHMOND, Va.

Virginia lawmakers killed legislation today that would have made Virginia
part of the national commemoration of Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday.

. . . Robert Lamb of Richmond, a member of the Sons of Confederate
Veterans, told the committee that Lincoln ... quote ... "sent armies into
Virginia to lay waste to our land."

***

I guess "with malice toward none" doesn't cut it any longer. Do I hear
anyone saying "Get over it"?

Henry Wiencek
Charlottesville

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