tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428205032256232155.post6067812578523013350..comments2024-03-22T00:25:38.125-07:00Comments on Living Dangerously: My Relationship With the Confederate FlagWeston Ochsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407444259518715386noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428205032256232155.post-18251931309141836252023-05-29T09:39:55.377-07:002023-05-29T09:39:55.377-07:00Nice postNice postJam Recipeshttps://www.makingjams.com/jam/homemade_peach_jam_5547325298.shtmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428205032256232155.post-87231200751890173682015-06-23T21:35:41.146-07:002015-06-23T21:35:41.146-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Sridhar Chandrasekaranhttp://ipersuade.blogspot.in/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428205032256232155.post-58713747937439142032015-06-23T13:51:55.132-07:002015-06-23T13:51:55.132-07:00Denise, you are absolutely right. I had a romantic...Denise, you are absolutely right. I had a romantic notion about it that was just that, romantic, but not true. I'm glad I figured it out.Weston Ochsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04407444259518715386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428205032256232155.post-58743054383825870122015-06-23T12:18:24.071-07:002015-06-23T12:18:24.071-07:00Thank you for this excellent post! As a native Cal...Thank you for this excellent post! As a native Californian, I always wondered about the Confederate flag. To me it was first of all a symbol of treason, as we were taught about the Civil War in a different way than those in the South. Gradually I also learned it was used as some sort of "code" for the Klan and other white supremacists. I don't think it belongs on any government building in our country--the South needs to get a clue. But then, they're teaching Creationism there, so I don't expect they'll get a clue about anything anytime soon.Denise Dumarshttp://www.denisedumars.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428205032256232155.post-73244191056342456712015-06-23T07:27:04.242-07:002015-06-23T07:27:04.242-07:00I'm sure many of the Nazis believed firmly in ...I'm sure many of the Nazis believed firmly in what they were fighting for. I'm sure most terrorists believe so much in what they're fighting for that they're willing to take their own lives in the process. Someone believing in something doesn't make their actions any less horrifying or condemnable robertswilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01305028306537384037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428205032256232155.post-14055877255938886322015-06-22T18:38:03.548-07:002015-06-22T18:38:03.548-07:00Great reply. I can trace my family back to the Mot...Great reply. I can trace my family back to the Motz family who were Pennsylvania Irregulars during the Revolutionary War. They fought both Toris and Indians.Weston Ochsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04407444259518715386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428205032256232155.post-83900641153317393652015-06-22T18:37:15.254-07:002015-06-22T18:37:15.254-07:00Great reply!!
Great reply!!<br />Weston Ochsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04407444259518715386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428205032256232155.post-5433897606686737172015-06-22T18:36:28.690-07:002015-06-22T18:36:28.690-07:00Good response, Bruce. Thank you.Good response, Bruce. Thank you.Weston Ochsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04407444259518715386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428205032256232155.post-29465492765011727962015-06-22T18:27:29.710-07:002015-06-22T18:27:29.710-07:00When I was growing up in Thief River Falls, MN, th...When I was growing up in Thief River Falls, MN, the Confederate flag was the redneck equivalent of long hair, purple sunglasses and love beads. All of the baggage that has become attached to it really didn't start to become apparent to me until I rolled into Ft Benning,GA when on my first day at basic some proud scion of West Virginia got all up into my grill demanding if I was for the North or the South. I still remember the look of his face when I told him none of my ancestors were speaking English back then. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16278456567334490025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428205032256232155.post-5539920981659372132015-06-22T17:16:05.230-07:002015-06-22T17:16:05.230-07:00Wes, growing up as a Connecticut Yankee with roots...Wes, growing up as a Connecticut Yankee with roots going back to the Adams family (John, Sam, and J.Quincey; not Gomez and Morticia) I always regarded the Confederate battle flag as a symbol of rebellion, of destruction and of wrongheadedness. The thing is, as I got older and more rebellious myself, I developed a respect for the Army that flew it. It has only been in the past few years that I have come to understand how it has been used and abused by people who would deny the real cause of the War. I have spent a number of years now exploring original source writings from the time and have developed a more nuanced understanding of the way the Secessionists thought. While the cause really was about maintaining the institution of slavery, much of what the Lost Cause historians said is also true. States rights and choice were a big part of the motivation but the rights they were primarily concerned with was the right to hold slaves. The problem now is that we see that motivation through 21st century values and find it so abhorrent that any other meaning is also tainted. That is a shame because men didn't fight and die with such fervor because they wanted to do evil. They believed in the justice of their cause as much as we today condemn it. Perhaps that can one day be recognized without condoning the motivation behind it.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07369175499040656072noreply@blogger.com