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ScootCraft@Shenandoah_Rox

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  1. 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...

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