(June 24, 2015 at 2:40 am)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:I have no doubt they were brave men, and no doubt that inside their limited moral horizon they were doing what they thought was right ... but that flag represents a nation that in its Constitution mandated chattel slavery.
I suspect a majority of the confederate ranks could never have read that document or understood it if they did have some basic literacy skill. They were cannon fodder, doing what they were told by their "leaders."
Quote:If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
Frederick the Great
No doubt ... 'twas ever thus, with most if not all armies. "Ours is not to reason why" and all that.
My point was that the regime for which they fought -- with knowledge or in ignorance -- is what taints that flag. And that they were not American soldiers.
