You Lost, Get Over It!
The opponents of Southern heritage often repeat the trope: “You lost, get over it.” One of them told me that it was “ironic” that we honor both the US and CS flags. But of course, the postbellum states of the CSA were annexed into the reunited USA. They were forced back into the Union. Therefore, thirteen of the stars on today’s Old Glory represent Confederate states.
American history is incredibly inclusive as well as intricate.
And to this day, when there is a war to be fought, the South is always over-represented. And when Yankees retire or go on vacation, they usually go South rather than North. I don’t blame them.
One of my colleagues in the ministry of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS) recently wrote that among “good uses” for the Confederate battle flag are “diaper, shop rag, kindling, stuffing for a pillow, burping cloth,” and “toilet paper.” In the ensuing discussion – which I was not a part of – he added, “It’s a treason/slavocracy flag. Plain and simple. It’s the revisionists that have a complete lack of understanding of history.”
Fortunately, this kind of churlish and disrespectful rhetoric is not common among my brethren in the ministerium.
But it is a helpful window into how much our education system and culture have degraded. There was indeed a time when the movie
THE death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, will have saddened many people across Scotland, a country he knew well and dearly loved. In many ways it was Scotland that formed him. Following a disrupted childhood he was educated at Schule Schloss Salem in Germany from 1933, but after only two terms he moved to Scotland, following the Schule’s Jewish founder Kurt Hahn, who had fled Nazi Germany and founded Gordonstoun School – its original name was the British Salem School of Gordonstoun – near Duffus in Moray. Philip arrived at Gordonstoun School in 1934, and Hahn became a lifelong mentor. The School in those days prized physical and sporting attributes as well as intellectual achievements – Hahn believed in a rounded education for teenagers, and himself taught history and ancient Greek. He also encouraged his pupils in drama – the Duke once starred in a school production of The Scottish Play, as actors call Macbeth.
Scot discovers 700-year-old coin from William Wallace era with metal detector
John MacEachen was using a metal detector to hunt for treasure in a field in Perthshire when he found the incredible silver hammered coin.
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