Well I just got back from the annual Battle of Cedar Creek, VA reenactment. I'm a private in the 42d PA "Bucktails ".
We had been notified of a written physical threat to those in attendance. Alot of us think that that actually increased reenactor numbers. We had a very impressive battle on Saturday, with manyspectators but shortly after we returned to our camps (on the original field of that decisive but little known clash) we were told that a viable bomb had been discovered in "Sutler Row" (rows of tents for vendors offering a wide variety of items of interest to reenactors and spectators alike.) Law enforcement took over, skillfully examining and countering this and a reported second bomb snuck into a wood pile in the Confederate camp. By Sunday morning law enforcement had done its unending job characteristically well and it was possible to reenact another battle as intended.
I have predicted that the American left , if convinced that its lawful and conventional efforts to take our country are futile, will resort to terrorism. The defeat of its darling in 2016, the development of President Trump into a formidable national leader and their dread of repulse in 2018 and 2020 has the left in a rare old mess.
They are fueled by emotion. Yes, there are very clear headed, serious planners among them who are yet devoted to the gradual destruction of America and its replacement with a "just" totalitarian entity. But the bulk of their cadre and their flock has displayed frantic juvenile hatred in their insane but fully to be expected onslaught on the very person of our duly elected President. That their "feelings", stung to the quick by the empowering of one who has no illusions about them and no fear of them, have turned to panic, is apparent in their fevered dreams of a Sanders , Harris or Warren dictatorship and in their resort to "the guerrilla" by the unstable so often to be found among them. That was at work at Cedar Creek, I think.
This incident is characteristic of the ignorant bigotry of many who deny anything positive in the exertions of those who fought through unimaginable hardship for their country in the South. Southerners have subsequently proven to be among the most truly loyal of Americans.
This current effort to discredit the memory of the Confederacy will fail; its leaders sneer at the real America which acknowledges shame for our historical misdeeds but affirms that, on balance and with very painful self correction (600,000 American wartime deaths between 1861 and 1865), this country strives for justice. The left's disdain for this and their determination to demand of America a submission to their perfectionist dreams they demand of no other country, defines and condemns their cause.
Their current vicious effort to expunge the memory of the Confederacy is an all too obvious prelude to an attack on our nation's historical and cultural fundamentals as an integral part of their campaign to destroy America and replace it with Marxist hell. Anti Confederate? Nah, they are just anti America. Jack
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Brilliantly put, Jack! Your eloquence is reaching a crescendo -- or maybe it will keep climbing to infinity... :) I'm amazed that this bomb plot (or bomb scare?) wasn't national news. Can you imagine if the intended victims had been leftists and/or people of color? The national media would have talked about nothing else for days!!!!
Dr. Waddy: Thanx for the good review; at times I'm able to summon the gift of gab to advantage. At the time we thought the unfolding events were on national news but calls to our relatives indicated otherwise. Your thoughts on that anomaly are highly plausible. I think it probable too, that most of the media did not wish to generate any sympathy for Confederate reenactors, who were most impacted by this crime. In Civil War II the free American press is exemplifying a strong argument against freedom of the press, to its shame alone and not that of the great principle itself. The American far left, which dominates the American left as a whole, continues to express in its actions its blatant totalitarian intent.
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