New Civil War postage stamps

[Bill]

What an embarrassment. Celebrating carnage and just how horribly people are capable of treating each other! 150 year Celebration??? I pass. YMMV.

Bill

[Bill]

Sorry, I forget to add: "OT". I just added it.

[FrozenNorth]

too late, you must now go any and a Festool as your penalty. :-)

[FrozenNorth]

[Just Wondering]

I haven't seen them. Do they "celebrate" or rather "commemorate"? We have Memorial Day. It doesn't celebrate our fallen soldiers, it commemorates their sacrifice.

[whit3rd]

Oh, just accept it; it's your history, and your civic duty to understand it if only to prevent recurrence.

The first US commemorative stamps, I believe, were of Civil War generals...

[Bill]

Commemorate:

(1) Recall and show respect for (someone or something) in a ceremony

(2) to serve as a memorial or reminder of:

(3) to make honorable mention of.

Which do you like? All 3 have too much solemnity for my taste. To my mind, and admittedly, I've read only 1 thick book on the subject, it was an atrocity.

Bill

[Bill]

Nope, I didn't buy any. I have a hard time understanding people interest in "re-living" greed/hate through reenactment....or even postage stamps.

[Bill]

Yep, a bunch of sacrifice which seems would not have been necessary, save for greed/hate.

[SonomaProducts.com]

What an idiot.

Nuff said.

[George W Frost]

Our Memorial Day in OZ is November 11 Remembrance Day Veterans Day Armistice Day Whatever you call it, it is for the remembrance of fallen soldiers and also for the celebration for the ones who returned of which there are not many left

[Larry Blanchard]

Just remember the hate was in the south, the greed was in the north.

In case you don't understand that:

1. The south was morally wrong to secede over slavery.
2. The north was legally wrong in stopping them.

Please note the "OT" added to the subject.

[Bill]

All the room I left for you to express an alternative viewpoint and that is all you could come up with? Go buy some stamps!

[Ed Pawlowski]

Perhaps you should be embarrassed. You don't celebrate, you commemorate. You also learn history and, hopefully, gain enough knowledge so you don't repeat it.

I'll be sure to buy and save some of the stamps to pass on a bit of history so my grandkids can learn from it too.

Our lives are shaped by the thoughts, speech, and actions of others we come across, both in life and in history. The people on both side were passionate about their reasons to fight. If you study the war and the participants, you can become a better person with better views of how to live with your fellow man. Read some of the letters from the soldiers to their families. You don't see such eloquence today.

You are missing so much.

[Bill]

I think the stamps send the wrong message. Certainly putting civil war generals on the stamps sends the wrong message (IMO). Put some bloody cotton bales on the stamps instead!

I haven't neglected learned a little about it. That's how I got my present understanding--certainly not from the popular culture. I'm not a know-it-all. I'm closer to being the opposite. I just know what I know, and I'm taking it from there. Most people appear to be apathetic (about it). Analogous to this, virtually everyone commenting about Lew's price of gas posts commented with regard to how it would affect him or her directly. I have read some of the letters you referred to and I am not ambivalent about how I feel about the civil war. You don't need to visit a battlefield to find eloquence. One reason you don't find the same sort of eloquence these days is that the recipient no longer has to wait on the pony express to receive message. The cost of postage has gone way down(look at my cost of delivering this message)!

You still think I am "missing so much" (you are, of course, entitled to your opinion)?

Bill

[Bill]

Bill wrote: Analogous to this, virtually everyone commenting about Lew's price

I rescind this. But, IIRC, alot of them were in this category.

[Lobby Dosser]

"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." A. Lincoln from the Gettysburg Address.

How do we "never forget", if we are not reminded?

[Lobby Dosser]

Surely many from Korea and Viet Nam?

[krw]

Except that slavery wasn't the reason, rather the excuse.

[SonomaProducts.com]

I think idiot says it all.