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artemisia1

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8. My Civil War era ancestors were poor German immigrant farmers living in Alabama. The military age males all fought

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Thu Feb 19, 2026, 11:51 PM

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for the Confederacy and, literally, only one returned alive. They are part of my ancestry, but NOT my heritage. Heritage implies a continuation of a tradition. Nobody in my family, including long-dead grandparents endorsed that tradition.

If the Confederacy is your "heritage" then you are a white supremacist, imho, PERIOD.

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