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1. about 10 years ago on Real Life Adventures

   MUST HAVE SHOPPED AT KROGER.

2. over 14 years ago on Doonesbury

   DOONESBURY, DON’T BE STUPID AND PAINT EVERYONE WITH THE SAME BRUSH: ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.

   We do living history. That includes both sides of the Civil War. We do yankees and rebs. We also do World War 2 living history: field Armies, hospitals, Army Air Corp., etc.

   It takes a lot of money and time to give today’s generation just a little taste of what it was like for our forefathers.

   My last Civil War recreation was Picket’s Charge Gettysburg. We had exactly the same number of cannons, horses and people as in the original battle. It was unbelievable the force on that battle field. It gave me a real feeling of the courage of men on both sides.

   In our Southern Camp, we were mostly Democrats not right wing GOP. I’m a Federalist and strongly against States Rights. We had one Openly Gay member, and we discussed Gay rights around the camp fire. We had Black, White, British, and many European members. Just like in the actual war.

   None of us favored Slavery, nor would we fight to defend it.

   But, all of us would fight to stop Northern Invaders bent on burning our towns and homes to the ground. Stealing our land. Raping our women. Occupying our homes for 25 years, and reconstructing our country through thievery for 100 years!

   By the way: Slavery did not cause the Civil War!!

   It was greed by the North. They were the slavers. They went to Africa and kidnapped the Africans. They sold the South the Slaves so they could get the Cotton for their Mills. When the South got a better deal from Europe, the North did everything it could to stop it. Finally resorting to Proxy Abolitionist to free the slaves and ruin the South’s Cotton Business.

   Southern & Northern Men died by the hundreds of thousands for the Greedy Yankee New England Factory owners, and their Cotton Plantation partners. None of which actually fought in the war they created.

   AS IN ALL WARS, IT WAS ALL ABOUT MONEY!!