Were I to stand where you stood in Boston, and in the old burial grounds which hold the remains of some of our most sainted dead, this old Confederate would have had to have some alone time to weep.

The damage that has been done to our country during and since The War of Southern Independence is unimaginable. Sad, I am, that the city of Boston, home to our God blessed founders, is such a hotbed of liberalism and socialisim, and a cradle of those who would destroy our nation.

Take care. Love your writings. My condolences on the loss of your friend.

“But no one’s ever heard it,
Tho some folks mimic it well.
No soul alive can truly describe,
The sound of the Rebel Yell!”

From “The Rebel Yell.
The Pebroch of Southern fealty”
Monty Akers

T.H.Bunner
Deo Vindice!

Thanks for the reply. I can relate. We live in far eastern Washington State a couple miles from the Idaho border. People out here feel the same about Seattle as rural Oregon feels about Portland.

-Dave

The city, I think, is an artificial, man-created world. The people who live there full time have very little contact with nature. The closest they come to a wild animal is on television. Most have never planted a garden to appreciate where food comes from. They have no connection between the meat on their table and a slaughtered animal raised in the countryside. They can’t conceive of a sport like hunting, and most have probably never even held a gun in their hands unless they were in the military. Government is also an artificial construct of man, so it may be that city folk are naturally inclined to identify with these artificial worlds with their laws conceived by bureaucrats and politicians who are also out of touch with the real world.

My 22 year old son and I spent 5 days in Boston the same week with you were there. Who knows, maybe we crossed paths. I gave my son a good lesson in history and the birthplace of of our nation and liberty. We walked the Battle Road and the North Bridge. My son had a good discussion with the volunteer docent at the Minuteman Battlefield Visitor Center. Dan just could not figure out given the legacy of what happened there, how Massachusetts could turn out to be the most liberal and socialistic state in the nation, including anti gun ownership banners and billboards on the Mass Pike. Maybe you can offer some insight as native Bostonian.

Best Regards,
Dave
Liberty Lake, Washington