well im from the Stonewall Jackson Area Council, next  
  
door neighbor to the former R.E. Lee Council in the  
  
good ol' Shenandoah Valley, Breadbasket of the  
  
confederacy. Anyway,with the Robert E. Lee Council  
  
changing its name, most of the people people in SJAC  
  
wooried about our anme changing. Most of the  
  
discussions that i have had with District execs, OA  
  
advisors, and even the Council exec and Council  
  
President have said that there has been no and there  
  
will be no discussion about changing the name for a  
  
loooooooooong time. The Robert E. Lee flaps arent that  
  
hard to get...everyone ahs bulked up on them and are  
  
selling them for less than what they are worth... 
  
  
  
  
o...i ma alos a confederate reenactor and ive been  
  
reading some of the hisorty stuff posted... slavery was  
  
not much of an issue...it was more States Rights and  
  
all that... Also the North and the South evolved very  
  
differently economically wise and states would have  
  
wanted out anyways...the slavery thing though is  
  
crock...Abe Lincoln, the great Emancipator, siad if i  
  
have to free every slae to keep this nation together i  
  
will, if i have to continue slavery to keep the nation  
  
together, then i will" Also, Yankee troops had the  
  
saying...(excuse the language...but this is one of  
  
those History not PC things)..."we fight for Uncle Sam  
  
not Uncle Sambo/ Nigger (ive heard both) Jeffereson  
  
Davis also had a clause in the CSA government document  
  
thing about freeing slaves after the end of the war and  
  
there were numerous blacks who fought for the CSA, just  
  
because you can still fight for the love of your  
  
homeland...