The Confederate Cemetery which is beside the Koonce plot.
Dr. Paul Gottfried’s speech at the annual Confederate Flag Day commemoration in the historic 1840 North Carolina State Capitol House of Representatives chamber on March 3, 2007 is remarkably prescient and topical for us today.
Much history has passed in the last fourteen years, much of it very damaging and destructive of those Southern and Confederate traditions and inheritance we once cherished and considered normative and part of our lives as Southern folk. We have witnessed in recent years the virtual stripping away of our heritage handed down to us faithfully by our fathers and their fathers, the banning of our revered flags and symbols, the vicious destruction of our monuments, the expulsion of our literature and the rewriting of our history, and the attempt to extinguish our very memory, both publicly and privately in our schools and in the environment in which we live.
More @ The Abbeville Institute
I personally don't hate the South, great barbecue and you don't have to shovel humidity.
ReplyDeleteIf A/C wasn't invented.....:)
DeleteYou have my sincere apologies for what liberals are doing to the heritage of the South. I am a Michigan resident, age 61, having lived here my entire life. And I am intelligent enough to realize that rewriting history changes nothing, and hiding the Confederate Flag, a symbol of bravery and heritage only makes for a blindfold for those who wish to bury their head in the sand.
ReplyDeleteJust remember that, no matter what those horrific people might do, there is no way that they will ever extinguish the fire that was lit by your ancestors that fought and in some cases died, for freedom, in the same way that around 100 years later some of my ancestors fought and in some cases died, for freedom.
May it be that one day when we join them, it will that America still remains free. At times, I just don't know what is happening to this once great nation, and worry.
Wishing you and yours peace and safety.
Just remember that, no matter what those horrific people might do, there is no way that they will ever extinguish the fire that was lit by your ancestors that fought and in some cases died, for freedom, in the same way that around 100 years later some of my ancestors fought and in some cases died, for freedom.
DeleteThank you and good luck!
Speaking of "extinguishing the fire and heritage", Buncombe Cnty
ReplyDeleteNorth Carolina has recently had five old barns, one-hundred yrs.
old, burned to the ground. Two yrs. ago in Haywood Cnty, the
same thing. No one was ever caught. The 'investigators' don't
know why but some how it has something to do with Southern
heritage as some of the barns were old tobacco barns.
Very disturbing to me as I find these old barns beautiful and
full of history and valuable. Some of the barns had old
artifacts from our Southern past - all burned.
Idiots and I have two.
DeleteIn two months of the same year in Edgecombe County, two churches, several cotton gins, a cotton factory, and many barns and homes were burned. [My county. BT])
https://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=203&highlight=edgecombe+barns
Did they catch anybody?
DeleteYou are lucky you have two of the old Southern barns.
In some cases, some upper middle class would buy the
wood from barns which were going to be demolished and
use it to build their unique homes. That's how wood use
to be - hand hewed.
I haven't read anymore and I just added two pictures for you. Thanks.
DeleteThanks for the pics. Does your old farm-house have hand
Deletehewed boards on the outside?
When it comes to crimes against Southern heritage, they
don't try very hard to find the culprits.
That's why my favorite Sheriff back from the 90's to the
mid 2000's was my favorite - he was an ol' timey type
which were the best Sheriff's not these modern pc
screwballs.
Strangely enough, that has never crossed my mind.:) We try and repair bad ones but if we can't, we use ones that aren't such. Thanks. Come visit.
DeleteThey hate the South because they hate what was and is good.
ReplyDeleteBingo.
DeleteWhen your livelihood is dependent on the production of others , the dependent begin to despise those that do not produce enough to make them even more rich. Adding value is not producing , it is robbing producers and buyers in order to make the middle men rich.
ReplyDeleteWell said.
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