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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Union and Confederate veterans shaking hands at the 50th anniversary of Gettysburg in 1913:

[img]https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hmnkjDBwJLM/XubW7roQYhI/AAAAAAAAYQs/YovDR6wL3tIs7cMtF2tMlJjOkZQZq5U6ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Last_Civil_war_veterans%2B%25281%2529.jpg[/img][/quote]

Yuck. I can't believe Union soldiers would honor illegal racist warlords like this.

Imagine if civil rights groups today threw a banquet in the honor of 1/6 insurrectionists![/quote]

This is the final paragraph from Lincoln’s Second Inaugaral Address, March 4, 1865.  His compassionate, forgiving soul shines through these words.  The sad reality is that most of us are petty, bitter and unforgiving, and, judging from this comment, it is only getting worse.

“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.”

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well yes but Lincoln's words and intent were trashed by his VP- the white men on both sides decided it was better to terrorize Black Americans and keep exploiting them and bar them from full citizenship in the photo of the two sides shaking hands- that is what the handshake of the union and confederates symbolized - malice against their darker brethren and the Union betrayal of loyal Black citizenry. [/quote]

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