My point is not how it has affected me, but how the Northern way of life was forced upon the South.

My point is not how good we live today but how bad my ancestors lived as a result of Northern Aggression.

Lincoln said, trying to sell wage labor to Southerners, that a man could work at wage labor for a year and then create his own company and hire laborers himself. How often have you seen this happen? Pure Rhetoric,,,

Myself I have retired from one job and work at another. I have never been able to work anywhere for a year and start a company, even as a Carpenter, I did not have enough experience to do so in a year.

But you aren't seeing yourself forced to live a way of life you do not want. Until you can imagine that, then you can't understand the Southerner of yesteryear. We are talking about War years, not today.

I read once :If you don't remember who your ancestors are, then you don't deserve to be remembered by your descendants: