Facebook said I was the target audience for far-right groups that pine for an Antebellum South and preach the virtues of white supremacy and eugenics. I discovered this when I went to Settings/Ads/YourInterests on Facebook and saw the types of ads the social media site …
Tag: Civil War

Honoring Civil War soldiers and sailors at the Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery in Seattle
Boy Scout Troop 100 spent Saturday morning at Seattle’s Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery cleaning the moss and dirt off of old headstones and planting flags in preparation for a Memorial Day ceremony. It is altogether fitting and proper that the Scouts should do …

150 years after Lincoln saw the fall of Richmond
Washington, D.C., may have a massive neoclassical temple to Lincoln on the Potomac. But 110 miles south on the banks of the James, the Great Emancipator gets no such deification. In Richmond, god-like status is reserved for Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee.
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The Rebel redneck with the Canadian accent who rescued our summer camping vacation
The proudest Southern redneck I have met in many, many years drives a red Dodge Charger adorned with a Confederate flag, but his accent is distinctly Canadian.
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