Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 16:03:29 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Shelby Foote, in the Ken Burns PBS Civil War series said that at the end =
Civil War it was no longer "The United States are . . ." but rather "The =
United States is . . ."

mjw

>>> StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL 04/02/02 04:03PM >>>
	That's my thinking.  When the Federal Army took the Confederate
surrender at Appamatox Courthourse, the victorious army, led by a man who
had taken 6 Confederate bullets, saluted the COURAGE of their opponents.
That gesture did a lot to reconcile the Confederates to being Americans
again.

-----Original Message-----
From: ronkean at juno.com [mailto:ronkean at juno.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 1:41 PM
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions

On Mon, 01 Apr 2002 15:40:21 -0500 "Michael Walsh"
<MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> writes:
>
> > StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL 04/01/02 03:40PM >>>>
> >        I was wondering if he had expanded his boycott to the
> entire =
> United
> >States since.  The NAACP is currently boycotting South Carolina
> over an
> >issue that I thought settled in 1865.
>
> It was, unfortunately South Carolina seems to be ignoring the
> historical =
> fact that they lost the rebellion, so the flag really should go away
> . . .
>
> mjw
>

Allowing southerners to use the Confederate flag may be a sort of
consolation gesture, much as the U.S. allowed Japan to keep its emperor. =

One of the United States even has the flag of a foreign country
incorporated into its state flag.

Ron Kean