This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------C0365D786B6E332FC93A6023 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------C0365D786B6E332FC93A6023 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Message-ID: <38B74F04.71688BFB@vnet.net> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 22:56:52 -0500 From: "Richard B. Honeycutt Sr." <ptps@vnet.net> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Seanachi1@aol.com, Willie Smith <wolfslayer@ficom.net> CC: CIVIL-WAR@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [CIVIL-WAR] CALL FOR NATIONAL OUTCRY References: <16.1595e4c.25e88baf@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Manassas National Battlefield is not the only heritage that is having an extensive erosion, considering that Texas is being forced to remove the Commemorative Plaque of the Confederacy that are located in the Supreme Court Building, as well as the Statues to Confederate Soldiers that stand on the Capitol grounds and wanting the State Flag redesigned. Mississippi just this week, was order to remove the Confederate Flag emblems from the State Patrol Vehicles and in South Carolina, it is being debated at present time to remove their State Flag from the Capitol Building. Considering that our heritage is being completely rewritten because of a minority being offended by it presents. They want to pretend that a War for States Rights, prior to The Emancipation Proclamation Act of 1863, was never fought and that they where never slaves. Considering that this Slave Issue Act was only enacted because the North was losing said War and was in need of a causes in which to get more troops enlisted, when taking into considering that said troops had lost interest and had dwindle from the fact of desertions. Therefore, The Emancipation Proclamation Act which made an issue of slavery. Should the matters of Flags, Plaques and Statues continues, then out ancestors will be forgotten as never existing and their ancestors never exited as slaves, thereby rewriting of history. Next thing you know, these same minorities will want the Bible rewritten, not wanting to acknowledge the fact that Israeli once was enslaved by the Egyptians, until God interceded into the situation and sent Moses to deliver is people. Even the Israeli people accept their heritage and even their scholars acknowledge in their writings, as being facts. Further considering, it would appear that the Black people are ashamed of their heritage and are offended by any reminder of an era 140 years ago, and have no knowledge of the facts of said Civil War. Therefore, what you have written regarding the noted historian and author, Bruce Catton, ("The Civil War is the thing that makes America different. It was our most tremendous experience, and it is not quite like anything that ever happened to anyone else".) continues to ring true, or at least give us something in which to think deeply. See Ya! Richard --------------C0365D786B6E332FC93A6023--