i’m so mad, i’m so mad at John fucking
Nov. 1st, 2017 01:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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i’m so mad, i’m so mad at John fucking Kelly, both for stealing my dad’s name and for being such a piece of shit. Today’s fuckery with implying that the wrong side won the Civil War has got me so fucking heated.
I’m going to do it, I’m going to get my mom to give me permission to repost the book she wrote about the Civil War service of the men of our small town as a Tumblr, echoing to Twitter. I need something shortform but not too short, you know? And the book is basically just a 1-2 page biography of every man from our small town who served.
Fuck your traitors, fuck your fake-ass Lost fucking Cause. Thousands of real people fought and died in that fucking war for the side that won, and the side that won was in the fucking right. We can’t be a real nation until we see that cause through. But their sacrifice was real and it is a hideous slap in the fucking face for a four-star general to dismiss the sacrifice of his own fucking predecessors.
Part of what makes Mom’s book so powerful is that she’s viewing these men’s story through the lens of paperwork; all she knows of them is what’s recorded, and in many cases, the best surviving record of them is the pension applications by their widows. Many of these men suffered their entire lives as a result of their military service, and that’s documented in the pension requests. Think about that.
One might ask why I set out to do this, or why I included men who had only a tiny connection to our town- for example, just enlisting here. I feel that these men were truly the “greatest generation.” They were all volunteers (though men were drafted for the war), who fought and lived in awful conditions for a noble purpose- preservation of their country. Some made the greatest sacrifice – their lives- knowing that their loved ones might never retrieve their bodies. Others suffered from illness or injuries incurred in the war all the rest of their lives. While I feel all this Civil War veterans deserve more recognition than our society gives them, I can at least recover all of them connected with our town.
i’m so mad, i’m so mad at John fucking Kelly, both for stealing my dad’s name and for being such a piece of shit. Today’s fuckery with implying that the wrong side won the Civil War has got me so fucking heated.
I’m going to do it, I’m going to get my mom to give me permission to repost the book she wrote about the Civil War service of the men of our small town as a Tumblr, echoing to Twitter. I need something shortform but not too short, you know? And the book is basically just a 1-2 page biography of every man from our small town who served.
Fuck your traitors, fuck your fake-ass Lost fucking Cause. Thousands of real people fought and died in that fucking war for the side that won, and the side that won was in the fucking right. We can’t be a real nation until we see that cause through. But their sacrifice was real and it is a hideous slap in the fucking face for a four-star general to dismiss the sacrifice of his own fucking predecessors.
Part of what makes Mom’s book so powerful is that she’s viewing these men’s story through the lens of paperwork; all she knows of them is what’s recorded, and in many cases, the best surviving record of them is the pension applications by their widows. Many of these men suffered their entire lives as a result of their military service, and that’s documented in the pension requests. Think about that.
One might ask why I set out to do this, or why I included men who had only a tiny connection to our town- for example, just enlisting here. I feel that these men were truly the “greatest generation.” They were all volunteers (though men were drafted for the war), who fought and lived in awful conditions for a noble purpose- preservation of their country. Some made the greatest sacrifice – their lives- knowing that their loved ones might never retrieve their bodies. Others suffered from illness or injuries incurred in the war all the rest of their lives. While I feel all this Civil War veterans deserve more recognition than our society gives them, I can at least recover all of them connected with our town.
