Howdy Compatriots

You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace can not advance over a road littered with cannon!

David Lloyd George

I just had to say something concerning this atrocity that we as a country sustained this past weekend.


I can not begin to conceive what type of hatred is in any individuals brain pan to ram a 5000 lb. death weapon into a crowd of pedestrians.


I have in the past stated that I did not perceive the confederate flag as a symbol of hatred but one of being a rebel { erroneously separating the word rebel from rebellious} Having grown up in the heart of Civil War history country, I lived in a world of flags, both Yankee and Rebel flags, never really separating the two except as north and south never as good and evil, but both as a horrible heritage of bravery to be distributed
equally between the young men who no doubt were scared to death on both sides of the fray!

Every time I pass down the Emmittsburg Road I wonder what those poor confederate boys who charged the union forces at the copse of trees had in their minds or what the union boys thought as they mowed down wave upon wave of other humans in the fierce melee, was it hatred of blacks or was it because they were forced in to a war of brothers that they were told would only last a few months. {this included my great grandfather, I have his first discharge} What would those men have to say about the controversy of this past weekend in Charlottesville!

Here are some 1938 {75th} Gettysburg Battle reunion images to ponder!

It is now another 79 years and this is the image of the day!

Please pay attention to who said this!


A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me. 

Please note who stated this! 

Robert E. Lee

Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives.In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy,for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

I will add more to this thought process at a later date!