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Originally Posted by The Batlord
They were still our people and served as honorably or dishonorably as an member of the US military. And comparing Confederate soldiers to Timothy McVeigh is the kind of flippant, Northern disdain that makes Southerners want to fly the Stars and Bars in the first place. It's also the same attitude that leads to Republicans calling Democrats socialists and Democrats calling Republicans racists. Do you really think it's a constructive way to look at things?
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They weren't "our" people, they were people who declared themselves citizens of a foreign nation and waged war against the United States. The only way in which the McVeigh comparison isn't accurate is scale, the Confederacy was far worse. No idea if it's "constructive" or not, but it's the reality of what happened. I don't see any point in glorifying it.