Miller as much as I admire your posts and respect you as a person, I'll stick with what I said. The result of the "late unpleasantness" was the preservation of our country.

We'd never have become what we are today as two competing neighbors, and the war would have gone on, not over slavery which became obsolete anyway, but over westward expansion.

And yes, my forefathers fought under the stars and bars, but since have faithfully served the stars and stripes. In fact, I did too...Geo

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