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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going
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To: ManyMoose who wrote (184614)10/15/2009 3:31:16 AM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh  Read Replies (1) of 225578
 
Dave, you said something privately that in a way I will respond to here. I don't read what you or Ish or Josh or others here say in other places. Where I post, I try to curb my tongue from any rude thing, but I do realize it is of a different' bent. but...

I learned lately even deeper what this all means. I think. I've just learned of my mountain/holler relatives who fought for the union. And of a mother who had a husband and son fighting for the union, and a son conscripted (yes, mostly my relatives were poor and gave a frig about the rich man's war and only went when conscripted) to fight for the conferates. so she was left with many young children and a farm to tend, hoping it not burned by either union or confederates who knew her beliefs. but this woman knew... her husband might well stand face to face with their son on the battlefield.

we can not do that now. I know what it cost my mountain people. what it still costs them well over a hundrend years later when for most of you the 'civil war' is but tales of this or that.

we can not do it anymore. the people of these hills of alabama gave all to support the union, even when the plantation owners of the south sent people to kill them and burn their fields. they are my people. this is my union.
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