Mr. Schweitzer, to put a fine point on it, there is no difference between the Confederacy and the British of 1814 who burned Washington, the Imperial Japanese of 1941 who bombed Pearl Harbor, or Al Qaeda of 2001 that destroyed the World Trade Center. I prefer not to romanticize American enemies in anyway. The Confederacy was an enemy of the United States of America not worthy of anymore commemoration than the Viet Cong. As for saluting Confederate Generals, Yamashita, the Japanese "Tiger of Malaya", was a fine General as well, but we still hanged him.
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