"It's time that America apologized to the Southern States for the death and deprivation that they inflicted on us in those years at war and the years of Reconstruction, and the conditions that continue today."

No sir I do not want any apology or anything else from anything in Washington. I have too much pride and honor for any hollow apologies. My family took a severe beating in the WBTS, we lost everything, but we scratched and clawed our way back up from poverty and doing well. They can put their apology where the sun don't shine. That is not to say they shouldn't apologize for some acts such as treatment of POWs but that is a 'nother matter.

I can't post what my thoughts are about the fools in Washington, but I am sure you can guess.

GP