both sides who gave up their lives for what they believed was right. remember and be proud. >> we never really had a racial reckoning. the problem started first immediately after the war. if you want north and south to get together and get along again you don't talk about causes and consequences. you talk about the mutual valor on that battlefield. why doesn't that confederacy which only lasted four years just go away? the racial reasons are paramount, but it also has to do with this idea that it confederacy was a dissent. man, they went to the limit and they deserve respect for all that courage. they claim after they've lost