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Re: Long memories
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Sunshine49 <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:04:36 -0500
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"Southern terrorists"? It's bigoted name calling like that which  
causes the war to never end. Once people- any people- start rewriting  
history- any history- for political ends, you're in trouble.

Nancy

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I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.

--Daniel Boone



On Feb 14, 2007, at 4:50 PM, Anne Pemberton 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
>
> Anne Pemberton
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henry Wiencek" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> 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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