May 28, 2024

SOUTHERN PRIDE!!

My beloved South with heroes who fought as hard as did the men in the Revolutionary War fighting for their freedoms. Men from both wars fought for what they believed; the difference was that the colonies won their (war), but not my beloved South. The English called men fighting the Crown (colonists)rebels and…Read More

Reconstruction (1866-1877)

Civil War Commander in Chief John A. Logan declared the first official Memorial Day in 1868

The First Official Memorial Day
May 30, 1868
Do you celebrate Memorial Day? In 1868, Commander in Chief John A. Logan of the grand Army of the Republic issued what was called General Order Number 11, designating May…Read More

May 26, 2024
NO GLORY IN WAR,
“Memorial Day:

The only way anyone stays alive in our memory is through thoughts. I went 48 years with very few words, I would never stand when they asked military to stand, the sorrow of how most of us were treated on our return home was etched inside of my soul; no one even knew I served but family and close f…Read More

Joining the military, leaving Picayune, Mississippi/in May 1966

I decided when I turned seventeen that I was going to join the Navy; my dad swore that I wasn’t, that a war was going on, and that I could be killed. My father and I didn’t see eye to eye, so a few days before I turned 17, I hitchhiked to Memphis, TN, to my Uncle Gene’s house to…Read More

We should never hope for a “civil war;” the outcome during and after will cause at least half the nation to suffer for years. The greatness of state rights given to us by ther constitution is that we in each individual “state” have the right to lead ourselves away from the central oppressive federal government.
As a state, we must and should…Read More