The wounds are still open and bleeding, there's no need to re-open them, they're open and have never healed.
Ruby,
I am very sorry it still is hurting. It is hard for me to imagine how difficult it must be to have lost loved ones in that conflict and still be able to unite as one nation. What is it which will ease your pain?
muman613
The South has been hurt by people like Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, and others who represent the Northeastern, leftwing, extreme liberal, high taxes, government controlling everything, agenda. The people in the North will suffer for it too but many of them don't know it yet and they keep voting for these filthy animals.
Most soldiers who fight and die for the USA today are from the South and yet they come back to a nation that disrespects them and makes fun of them and calls them racist, rednecks, backwards, white trash, etc.
Their heritage is slandered and either lied about and made out to be about slavery, or condescendingly referred to etc.
Traditional Biblical values are smeared as being homophobic, backwards, and all kinds of other things.
The Northeast has done everything it can to completely destroy state's rights. We can't even outlaw abortion in the South because big old powerful central government tells states what they can and cannot do, or else.
The cannons and muskets might not be firing anymore but the ideological and cultural rift goes on.
I don't know what would make it better, but I think as I said that everyone in this nation needs to look at Biblical values and also realize that government is not the solution to everything and we shouldn't be taxed to death.