<div dir="ltr">Yes, b<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">rothers fought against each other during the Civil War. That is well known. However, most brothers didn't. Most brothers -- most combatants, then and now -- </span><font face="arial, sans-serif">choose their battles based on geographic and familial propinquity.<br>
<br>By the way, bibliophiles don't need to be advised to read books. </font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 4:36 AM, Tom Hansen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" target="_blank">thansen@moscow.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>FYI, Chasuk . . . </div><div><br></div><div>Familial brothers fought against each other during the Civil War. People were NOT committed to any particular cause based simply and solely on their geographical location.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The CSA (Confederate States of America) attempted to secede from the union, for several reasons ("slavery" being one of them). This took time and ultimately promulgated the Civil War.</div><div>
<br></div><div>Read a book.<div class="im"><br><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares"</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com" target="_blank">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div>
<div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size:medium">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size:medium"> </span></div>
<span style="font-size:medium">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:medium">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span><br>
</span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span>- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div></div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On Jan 11, 2013, at 11:22 AM, Chasuk <<a href="mailto:chasuk@gmail.com" target="_blank">chasuk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">It's a little early to prove Godwin's Law, don't you think?<br><br>Confederate soldiers were young men who woke up one morning as the enemy. They did nothing that their countrymen to the north would not have done had those countrymen been born in the south.<div>
<br></div><div>T<font face="arial, sans-serif">he government of the antebellum south no longer exists, so there is nothing that you can do, nor have ever been able to do, to support it. But supporting erstwhile antebellum governments is not the point. The point is showing compassion. I feel compassion for our soldiers today who serve in Afghanistan, while not necessarily supporting our government's decision to put them there. In my estimation, victors and vanquished alike deserve compassion. In this case, the vanquished were our fellows, born on the wrong side of an arbitrary line. </font></div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 3:38 AM, Tom Hansen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" target="_blank">thansen@moscow.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div>In that case, Chasuk, perhaps you should petition the White House to erect monuments to those Japanese airmen that bombed Pearl Harbor and the Nazis that interred and killed six million Jews.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I do not, and I NEVER will, support the government of the antebellum south.</div><div><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares"</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com" target="_blank">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div>
<div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size:medium">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size:medium"> </span></div>
<span style="font-size:medium">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:medium">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span><br>
</span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span>- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div><div><br>On Jan 11, 2013, at 10:12 AM, Chasuk <<a href="mailto:chasuk@gmail.com" target="_blank">chasuk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">I disagree with the intent of this petition. Confederate soldiers died with as much honor -- and as much heroism, if such a thing exists -- as their Yankee counterparts. </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 2:00 AM, Tom Hansen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" target="_blank">thansen@moscow.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div>Visionaires (et al) -</div><div><br></div><div>I encourage you to visit and sign the petition linked below.</div><div><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div>
<div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares"</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com" target="_blank">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div>
</div><div><div> </div></div></div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>Date:</b> January 11, 2013, 8:47:30 AM PST<br><b>To:</b> <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" target="_blank">thansen@moscow.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> <b>White House Petition asking Obama not to send a wreath to the Arlington Confederate Monument</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Tom,</span><br><span> At this URL is a petition asking Obama not to send a wreath to the</span><br>
<span>Arlington Confederate Monument.</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="http://wh.gov/PLBU" target="_blank">http://wh.gov/PLBU</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>If you could sign it and let people know about it I would greatly appreciate</span><br>
<span>it. </span><br><span></span><br><span>Regards,</span><br><span></span><br><span>Ed Sebesta</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="http://arlingtonconfederatemonument.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://arlingtonconfederatemonument.blogspot.com/</a></span><br>
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