Bill -
I believe that, as you say, the south is not still fighting the Civil War, but is remembering it.
I believe that ALL groups who have lost wars on their own soil also never forget, in any part of the world, and at all times in history. War and conquest cannot help but create generations of those who never forget... some of whom can be expected to take up arms against the victor again, sooner or later. To wit, the conquest of Jerusalem by the Crusaders.
I believe that no attempt at reconstruction ever fully succeeds to restore wholeness to a conquered ("liberated"?) people.
I believe that the history of conquest is written, and forever promulgated, for the benefit of the victors and ignoring the conquered.
I believe that what is a just cause for the victor or the aggressor is always a crime to the other side, and vice versa.
I believe that war has never resolved that which caused it.
I believe that in the absence of direct democracy in America there will come a day when another kind of terrible conflict will arrive here, because the issues at root in 1860-65 have rarely been addressed since.
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