It is a powerful and pivotal moment, and in real life the human race would be so much the better if we would adopt this simple truism as a way of life. This week I received from the fax machine of Heritage Covenant Schools, under the letter head of the Tennessee League of the South, a press release calling for reparations for Southerners for so-called war atrocities by the Union against Confederates. I find that perplexing, the proposal raising a host of emotions from sadness to incredulousness. I thought that was what war was all about. Someone wins, someone loses.
Someone is the conqueror and someone conquered.
I am sorry, but I find all this incredulous and so short-sighted that I have trouble bringing a logical response to such an illogical request. Since receiving the fax I have wondered if TLS's position is a response to some requesting money for atrocities suffered by slaves at the hands of slaveholders. That is equally incredulous. History is littered with the evil doings of men. He nearly died and took a full year to recover.