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[Christine]

Sandi - thank you for your thoughtful reply. I so appreciated the measured and sincere tone. I am afraid sometimes in our discussions here we (me included) need to remember these beautiful words from Lincoln,

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”

I am afraid in most of our politics and cultural discussions about topics that deeply divide us that we forget those very real and very profound sentiments. One very valuable lesson that the Civil War should have taught us is that we are all citizens of The UNITED States of America, and that my voice, beliefs, and opinions are no less and no more important than anyone else's; and that the blood that bought that right wasn't shed only for the citizens in the North, but for those in the South, also.