Tom, I am not bitter, but I have compassion and empathy for those who are bitter because of the reasons under discussion and others. (I work with the disabled.) I prefer that the Civil War be called the Civil War. Next week I will be near New Point Comfort, so I will wave at you when I'm on the beach. I have five biological sisters. One lives in Texas, I am in Virginia, the other four live in four northern states. We got together to bury our mother a few years ago, and that's when the discussion of southern ways came up. Virginians and Texans have a lot of similarities. Anne Anne Pemberton [log in to unmask] http://www.erols.com/apembert http://www.educationalsynthesis.org ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html