Quote Originally Posted by JuBru View Post
Traitors are not heroes. These "important figures" don't need statues, monuments, or anything else celebrating them. Having them glorifies their positions and you know they were wrong.
Traitors?????

Not hardly. There was nothing in the Constitution that excluded the right of the southern states to leave the union they had voluntarily joined. As far as I know, there still is not, and I often hear the loonies on the left coast threatening to leave (no war needed...they may leave). That is hardly being traitorous. If it is, then this country is nothing but a bunch of descendants of ignoble traitors to the crown. In actuality, that is closer to the truth than calling the confederates traitors.

There are lots of southern crosses adorning the grave stones of my ancestors (one is even buried in Beauvoir in Biloxi). None owned slaves, most were very poor, and all answered the call of their state (mostly Mississippi) when they were called to fight the Union. You know, just like you did when Uncle Sam called...same thing in a land defined by state's rights. I never met a Vietnam vet that said they went off to war to "stem the spread of communism in Southeast Asia." They went because they were called.

Traitors my ass.