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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Apr 29, 2008, at 11:21 PM, EarthNSky wrote:

> Thank you Marie, I wish I could have expressed such so succinctly.
> Civil Wars are unique because the vaniquished still lives among the
> victors, and has no real voice to argue when the victor tells his  
> story.
> UNTIL, the vaniquished can gather in numbers large enough for their
> voices to be heard.

Has anyone one here read Shelby Foote's three-volume set on the Civil  
War? Hugely successful books. Widespread readers. For those not aware,  
he was a Southerner.