Tag: Confederate monuments

• My Mother’s Yankee Daughter

  Here is a story that became a legend in our family: We were driving to church. My brother and I were kids. We were talking about the Civil War. Both of us knew it was fought to end slavery and keep the Union together, and that Abraham Lincoln was a hero. And my mother thought…

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  August 18, 2017

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  Confederate monuments, ethics, family, personal, personal responsibility, politics, race