As someone whose family moved south of the Mason-Dixon line, I’ll never understood why we have so many people who are still in their heads re-fighting the Civil War. This April marked 148 years since Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appamatox. Most of my family was in Europe at that time but I did have one relative in the U.S at the time who served the Union proud. I just don’t get it. The CSA being defeated was a wonderful thing. Who knows if we could have defeated Hitler if the Union had remained divided. Who knows if the USSR would have fallen in a divided America. Lincoln had it right when he quoted the bible when he said a house divided on itself cannot stand. That there are large numbers of people in this country who romance arguably the most divisive and violent part of our history is something I’ll never get as long as I live. I get being proud of great great grandpa who fought bravely at Antietam but I do not get celebrating his cause as if it were noble especially here in 2013 when we have a man of African decent, a people the leaders of the CSA said flat out they could never regard as equal to the white man as our nation’s president. To me honestly, whenever I see a Confederate flag on a vehicle or on a home, it does make me wonder about the person waving it. I don’t automatically assume they’re a bigot but I do wonder about their intellect but more important their sanity that they wish to celebrate a society whose sole purpose was to preserve human chattel.