"(W)e blues and grays have more to unite us than divide us in today's culture." Mike, you are so right. At least we know what each of us are talking about, whether we agree or not. Someone like your sister in law would likely just roll their eyes skyward.

Whenever I see the film from 1913, when the veterans of Pickett's charge near the stone wall, and the Yanks go out to help them over it, my eyes get wet, and I choke up, even now just writing about it.

And some time when you have a few spare minutes, Google Fitzgerald, Georgia. In the 1880s, there was a crop failure in the midwest. Georgia veterans invited their Northern counterparts to come and settle with them. Alternating streets in the town are named for Southern and Northern Generals. The town still celebrates that example of brotherhood. Stan