NPeters102@aol.com said: >But I also have trouble using its >traditional title. For this war was anything but civil. As I'm sure everyone is aware, there are two definitions of the word civil. As for the war, civil was never meant to describe its' nature.....there IS no civil war, they are all antisocial and violent. Civil in that case meant "of the people", as in "civil unrest" or "civil disobedience". Whether it was "northern aggression" or not depends totally on which side of the conflict one happened to be on..... ANY war between nations, countries, states, whatever, has TWO sides to the issue. There are a lot of countries right now that find the USA to be the aggressor, and they don't care if it's northern USA or southern USA. Our attitudes today cannot change what happened in the past.....nothing can. However, our attitudes today can do MUCH to set the tone of the future and I would hope that we can learn from that. I'll call the Civil War the Civil War because it serves no good purpose to call it otherwise. I mean no disrespect and it is not my intention to *flame* anyone or start a controversy....I am simply hoping to *avoid* a discussion and/or fault-finding mission on this list. Rose (with ancestors on both sides of the conflict, like nearly everyone else)

So long as it is viewed in it historical context fine. Political correctness should never be used. /s/ Jim Spencer -----Original Message----- From: Rose Johns [mailto:torosebud@earthlink.net] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 10:13 AM To: VAFRANKL-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [VAFRANKL] The Uncivil War.... NPeters102@aol.com said: >But I also have trouble using its >traditional title. For this war was anything but civil. As I'm sure everyone is aware, there are two definitions of the word civil. As for the war, civil was never meant to describe its' nature.....there IS no civil war, they are all antisocial and violent. Civil in that case meant "of the people", as in "civil unrest" or "civil disobedience". Whether it was "northern aggression" or not depends totally on which side of the conflict one happened to be on..... ANY war between nations, countries, states, whatever, has TWO sides to the issue. There are a lot of countries right now that find the USA to be the aggressor, and they don't care if it's northern USA or southern USA. Our attitudes today cannot change what happened in the past.....nothing can. However, our attitudes today can do MUCH to set the tone of the future and I would hope that we can learn from that. I'll call the Civil War the Civil War because it serves no good purpose to call it otherwise. I mean no disrespect and it is not my intention to *flame* anyone or start a controversy....I am simply hoping to *avoid* a discussion and/or fault-finding mission on this list. Rose (with ancestors on both sides of the conflict, like nearly everyone else) ==== VAFRANKL Mailing List ==== Franklin Co., Va. List Archives http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?listname=VAFRANKL ============================== Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com