Kondor3
Cafeteria Centrist
You didn't answer the original question...1. you are a loyal Union manIt will pass un noticed as it should. The man was a traitor and deserves his place of infamy in History.
2. your home State leaves the Union
3. can you take sides against your own family, friends and neighbors?
1. You are a loyal Union Man
2. Your home state violates the covenant between the States in that Union by choosing to leave it.
3. The new covenant between the States that it joins attacks the nation you were supposedly loyal to
4. You join the attackers.
5. You deserve whatever ass kicking that comes your way for betraying your "values" (if he had any to start with).
He picked a fight he couldn't finish.
Could you fight against your family and friends and neighbors, or stand idly by, while others attacked them, when you had a particular talent, useful for their defense?
If you answer "yes", then there is something very, very wrong with your soul.
As to him picking a fight he couldn't finish...
The measure of a man is not whether he stands by his neighbors or abandons them, based upon the odds...
The measure of a man is when he stands by his neighbors, regardless of the odds...
Robert E. Lee passed that test with flying colors...