Lest we forget: the union soldier

  

                               1861-1865

How come secessionist slave-state rebels get to grab all the glory? Union Soldiers laid down their lives for free-soil and the United States of America. Thanks for serving, and... for winning!

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[Puget Sound]

G.A.R. -Grand Army of the Republic-cemetery in Snohomish has the remains of Civli War soldiers.
If you want to get an understanding of what the life of the Union Soldier was like read this:

it will humble you...

[Puget Sound]

The photo that should humble you about the sacifice of the hero's of this generation.
What price freedom?

After graduating from Duke, Regan turned down a job offer from UBS, a financial services company, and a scholarship to Southern Methodist University's law school to enlist in the Army, where he passed on Officer Candidate School to focus on becoming a Ranger.

"He said, 'If I don't do it, then who will do it?'" said Regan's fiancee, Mary McHugh, a medical student at Emory University who, like scores of others at the Park Avenue house yesterday, wore Regan's high school graduation photo clipped to her shirt. "He recognized it as an option and he couldn’t not do it."

Army Sergeant James John Regan was born June 27, 1980, in Rockville Centre, New York. He graduated from Chaminade High School in Mineola, New York, where his lacrosse skills earned him a scholarship to Duke. There, while earning a bachelor's degree in economics, he played midfield on two teams that won conference championships and one that reached the NCAA semifinals.

Regan enlisted in February 2004 and spent three years in the Army, earning a Bronze Star, Purple Heart and several medals marking his service in Iraq and Afghanistan. He went to the Army’s language training school and read about the countries he patrolled, but remained humble enough to make his three sisters laugh with a Borat film-character impression or explain the region's centuries-old conflict to his mother, Mary Regan, when he was home for Christmas.
He was "a best friend to everyone he knew," said his youngest sister, Michaela, 16.
Regan's stint in the Army was to end in February 2008, and he and McHugh planned to marry the next month. They were to move to the Chicago area, where her family lives, and he was going to become a social studies teacher and coach lacrosse.

[nevets]

Hood makes liberal politics even out of Memorial Day. For shame.

[Andrew]

people only play that card when they disagree with the politics.

[Tommy008]

why aer Medved's little canned " Colonial American History" programs with the drum and fife music and Medved's unpleasant voice narrating his "version" of things , that he plays on holidays like today, so damned annoying and obnoxious?

[Tommy008]

Medved reusese to call it the civil war , and along with certain fellow rightwing nutbags , calls it "the war between the states"..... it's a racist thing....you wouldn't understand.....

[sparky]

Some in the South call it the War of Northern Aggression.

[AprilMayJune]

According to Wikipedia, Memorial Day was "First enacted to honor Union soldiers of the American Civil War (it is celebrated near the day of reunification after the Civil War), it was expanded after World War I to honor dead Americans from all wars."

Therefore, it is appropriate to reference the Union soldier when talking about Memorial Day, isn't it? Or is this some shameful Liberal insult to Americanism?

Just wondering ...

[tit for tat]

how about The Slaveholder's Rebellion

[KS]

"Therefore, it is appropriate to reference the Union soldier when talking about Memorial Day, isn't it? Or is this some shameful Liberal insult to Americanism?

Just wondering ..."

I don't see anything wrong about it. Hypothetically, if a conservative from the south were to disagree about this, this libs would expend maximum effort to try and score political points by painting the conservative as a confederate racist and trying to throw the racist label slop against the wall as many times it took for it to stick and run true to form. Just sayin'.

[AprilMayJune]

Happy Memorial Day to all who have served; Liberal, Conservative, Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, and everyone in between. Happy Memorial Day especially to those who serve without agenda, just because it is the right thing to do.

[Fellow traveler]

Right on, blatherwatch, I am sick of these southerners still fighting this war. All the confederate flags flying on pickups while accusing Obama and liberals of being traitors. Fuck the confederacy. In so many ways we have not got over that war and are still being led by a lot of politicians who are must suck up to people still sore about losing it.

[tigsnort]

The Civil War ended?

KS whined: "Hypothetically, if a conservative from the south were to disagree about this, this libs would expend maximum effort to try and score political points by painting the conservative as a confederate racist and trying to throw the racist label slop against the wall as many times it took for it to stick and run true to form."

Oh stop it you poor little victim. If people act like racists they're gonna get called racists. If you defend the "confederacy" then you're a racist, not to mention a traitor.

[Coiler]

The south should apologize or receive our toxic waste hidden at Cracker Barrel locations.