As Southerners we now celebrate the Original Memorial Day honoring Confederate Heroes and President Jefferson Davis on his birthday..

This event has become hidden from the people.  You see, nowadays there is a war on truth and truth is a thing “Those people” are used to manipulating.

Why are bravery, honesty, and respect for women, tolerance for other’s beliefs, and national and regional patriotism so difficult for the bullies to understand? They throw fits to get what they want- imposing their will on others- to punish today for the past.

It was always going to happen- citizens desiring to strike blows over whatever they are bitter about, whatever their feelings are hurt over.  You can’t predict this or see it coming, none of us did, and you can’t fix it.  Those people, “the offended” complainers   have their elected puppets that are wrecking the country for the sake of their own careers, their particular party politics.  Stop electing them.

Now, just as the Confederate soldier returned after the war and became a peaceful citizen, because he was a hero, and could rise above the humiliation of surrender, and from a hero of war became a hero of peace, so should we descendants of those Confederate soldiers, emulate their example. The Confederate soldier fought with honor, surrendered with honor, and abided the issues of their time with honor.  After the war he came back into the Union equal with all Union men.  We are as loyal today as other Union men.  He had to fight, he had to endure that awful reconstruction period, but wise people who read their history understand why it was a necessity then and why we today have to fight for OUR history to be passed on.

But, does loyalty to the American flag that floats above us now prevent our loyalty to the Confederate flag? NOT AT ALL.  That is the emblem of the South’s Patriotism.  Four years it waved its precious folds above a righteous cause, and when we furled it, it was because we were overpowered and not because we were conquered.  Silently and reverently we laid that flag away, that our children and children’s children coming after us might revere it.  WE MUST teach to them the principles for which our fathers fought—constitutional liberty.  The War Between the States was a war of secession and coercion.  It really came about by a different interpretation of the Constitution.  It started with an encroaching on their fundamental right of free speech and free thought.  

Aren’t we in the SAME situation today?  The “Offended’s voice must not be the ONLY voice.  Encourage future Historians to get all the facts. Keeping this monument keeps minds curious, keeps the history alive.

We Southerners are HISTORIANS and the first qualification for any historian is TRUTHFULNESS.  History is truth, and you must truthfully preserve and pass on the facts, even on the difficult topics.  So all reasons for the Civil War are considered and not twisted to excite an unschooled populace.