The May 28 letter âHonoring Military Veterans Fighting For Our Freedomâ is an example of historical revision by omission and deserves historical context.Â
The author discusses the origin of Memorial Day in the aftermath of the Civil War as Decoration Day, but glosses over the deep divisions that existed in the nation that persist to present day.Â
At the heart of the division is how to remember the 260,000 Confederate soldiers who died fighting to uphold the institution of slavery, a brutal system that dehumanized people by branding, beating, rape, separation of families, and forced physical labor. Remembering these soldiers should be separated from honoring the system for which they fought. For many decades, the Southern states observed their own Confederate Memorial Day.Â
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Today, the U.S. Congress will vote to certify the Electoral College vote for the 2020 presidential election, certifying Joe Biden as the next president … or not. However unlikely, it’s constitutionally possible for Congress to nullify the Electoral College vote and to force the decision onto the members of the House of Representatives, voting
en bloc state by state, in a contingent election.
We’ve been told that such a move is “manifest nonsense” and even “a threat to the republic,” as if 2020 were any normal election year, and more importantly as if a contingent election were unprecedented and contrary to American principles of government. Likewise, a growing number of Republican election dissenters hold that the general election was befouled with sufficient illegal skulduggery to reject outright, and that that fraud is in fact the
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