Why not Obesity Day?

Dear Sir, what you wrote in answer to my comments is shown below in ALL CAPS. 

Though rather entertaining, your article totally missed one critical point. There is no celebration of war (on Armstice Day, Memorial Day, Pearl Harbor Day, Confederate Memorial Day), 

IF YOU HAD READ WHAT I WROTE MORE CLOSELY YOU WOULD NOTICE THAT IN IT THERE IS NO CELEBRATION OF WAR AND THAT’S IS HOW IT SHOULD BE. I’M SURE THAT MOST OF US WILL CELEBRATE MEMORIAL DAY NEXT MONDAY, MAY 24. THAT DAY WE WILL NOT BE CELEBRATING ANY WAR, BUT WILL BE HONORING THOSE WHO FOUGHT IN EVERY AMERICAN CONFLICT…EXCEPT FOR CONFEDERATE VETERANS WHO ARE TOTALLY LEFT OUT OF IT. CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL DAY USED TO BE A SEPARATE MEMORIAL DAY IN APRIL, AS MR. COOK SO DERISIVELY POINTED OUT, AND IS STILL COMMEMORATED BY THE DESCENDANTS OF THESE VETERANS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. THIS IS WHY THOSE OF US WHO LOVE OUR CONFEDERATE HERITAGE STILL CELEBRATE AND HONOR OUR ANCESTORS WHO SERVED IN THE CSA, BECAUSE THEY ARE GENERALLY LEFT OUT OF THE NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAY CELEBRATION IN MAY.

but respectful remembrance of those who, in Lincoln’s words “gave the last full measure”. 

YES, I AM VERY RESPECTFUL OF ALL THE VALIANT PATRIOTS IN OUR GREAT LAND WHO HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED FOR THEIR BELIEFS. HOWEVER I MAKE IT A POLICY TO NEVER QUOTE LINCOLN THE TYRANT, THE TWO-FACED POLITICIAN WHO WAS A CONSTITUTION HATING, CONSUMATE LIAR AND WARMONGER (SOUND FAMILIAR IN THE PRESENT DAY DC ADMINISTRATION?); THE ACCESSORY TO THE MURDER AND MAIMING OF MORE THAN 350,000 SOUTHERNERS—WHITE AND BLACK, JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN, MALE AND FEMALE, CHILDREN AND ADULTS !

Regarding what to do: I would suggest visiting remote graveyards that hold veterans from long ago and tidying up, pulling weeds, recording their names for posterity. 

IT SEEMS YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE UDC IS ALL ABOUT, DO YOU?  IF YOU DID YOU WOULD KNOW THAT VETERANS (BOTH CSA IN THE PAST AND USA IN THE LAST FEW WARS IN THE PRESENT DAY) ARE REGULARLY GIVEN TRIBUTE BY OUR ORGANZATION IN ALL OF THE WAYS YOU SO SMUGLY SUGGEST, AND MUCH MORE. 

Honoring those who fought for our country (USA and CSA) is a small, simple, and safe tribute that surely even you have some time to do. 

EVIDENTLY YOU DO NOT GIVE TRIBUTE TO ANYONE ELSE BUT YOURSELF, OR YOU WOULD BE OUT THERE DOING THESE IMPORTANT THINGS YOU MENTION;  AND IF YOU WERE DOING THEM, YOU WOULD KNOW THAT THE UDC, SCV, DAR, SAR, COLONIAL DAMES, SOCIETY OF THE WAR OF 1812, AND OTHER HERITAGE SOCIETIES THAT HAVE CHAPTERS IN THIS SECTION OF AL, GA & FL TOO, GIVE OF THEMSELVES AND THEIR FINANCES ON A REGULAR BASIS TO SEE THAT VETERANS OF EVERY WAR THAT HAS EVER CLAIMED THE LIFE OF AN AMERICAN IS HONORED. IF YOU KNOW OF ANY SUCH GRAVES THAT HAVE NOT BEEN DECORATED, PLEASE LET US KNOW. WE WILL BE HAPPY TO SEE THAT IT IS DONE. THE UDC HAS A STATEWIDE NETWORK FOR SUCH THINGS AND WOULD BE HAPPY TO ASSIST YOU. YOU MAY CONTACT THE LOCAL UDC CHAPTER AT :                < ridewiththatdevilnbf@yahoo.com >

And, what a shame if your thought is accurate—that few even know the sacrifice of fallen veterans or why there is a day of remembrance. Yet another clue that we continue to fail miserably in teaching our state and nation’s history.

YES, ON THIS TOPIC YOU ARE CORRECT. OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS FAIL MISERABLY AT TEACHING ALL OF OUR NATION’S HISTORY, ESPECIALLY THE PART OF IT THEY WANT TO REMEMBER, LEAVING OUT THE REST, SUCH AS THE REAL REASONS THAT THE SOUTH WAS DRAWN INTO A WAR IT DID NOT WANT OR ASK FOR FROM 1861-1865. IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEMS OF THIS STATE ALABAMA HISTORY WAS ONCE A REQUIRED COURSE, BUT SOME YEARS AGO IT BECAME AN “ELECTIVE” IN THE HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM. SINCE I RETIRED FROM THE DOTHAN CITY SCHOOL SYSTEM IN 1996, I DON’T KNOW FOR SURE IF IT IS EVEN TAUGHT AT ALL NOW.

SO SAD…

FOR THE CAUSE,
Martha S. Smith

Recently you derisively questioned the reason why Confederate Memorial Day is ‘still’ observed in Alabama.
In answer to your query, below are quotes from three eloquent sources whose sentiments are all the same. Even though two are speaking to us from the past, one is from the present day. Their eloquent agreement says far more than I ever could when it comes to explaining the reason why Confederate Memorial Day is still so lovingly celebrated in Alabama on the last Monday of April each year. 
“All of the blood of the American Revolution of 1776 was shed to establish the right of self government. The Revolution had no other end, meaning that if it did not establish that right, then it was a sanquinary farce; and yet because we (in the South) chose to exercise that very right 85 years later, we were declared ‘rebels’ and numerous herds of mercenaries, collected from all quarters of the globe, were hurled against us.  Four years of terrible, barbarous warfare, of cruelty of the most savage and wickedness of the most wanton followed. Everyone in the South knew, and REAL Southern Patriots still do, that looting was the name of that game “ - Excerpt from ‘The Richmond Whig’, January 20, 1865
“Instead of accepting the defeat of the South as a divine verdict against her, I regard it as but another instance of ‘truth on the scaffold and wrong on the throne.‘ “ - Robert Catlett Cave, Minister & Confederate Vet, 1911
“The War Between the States was about independence, about self-determination, about the right of a people to break free of a government to which they could no longer give allegiance. How long is this endless groveling before every cry of ‘racism’ going to continue before the whole country collectively throws up?“  - Patrick Buchanan (syndicated column, 7/28/93)

Now, almost 150 years later, the remembrance of that great UN-Civil War still leaves some Southerners,  the descendants of those brave and courageous Confederates who dared defend their homes, their lives and their sacred honor, the need…no, the duty, to remember these men and their gallant deeds on Confederate Memorial Day each year.
It’s because of our ancestors who managed to make it back home from that War (mostly on foot) that we even exist. They picked up the pieces and lived through Reconstruction, which was in some ways worse than the War because it effectively destroyed the balance of their culture that remained.
And you, one of the horde of ignorant, ‘unwashed media scalawags’ who dare call themselves Southern journalists today, you don’t have a clue as to the real meaning of this inheritance. It is the ‘blood right’ of those of us who choose to honor our brave Confederate grandfathers, sir.  As for you…why, you don’t even deserve to utter their names.

In the words of the immortal William Faulkner, “In the South, the Past
isn’t Dead…it isn’t even
Past”

Martha S. Smith
United Daughters of the Confederacy,
General William C. Oates Chapter, Dothan

Great Grand Daughter of Joseph F. Sullivan,
8th KY Infantry (Mtd)

You are correct that we might have obesity, or ignorance, or brainwashed, or propaganda days; or many other days reflecting the lack of education or lack of determination to learn the truth. But to denigrate the honor due the men who fought to preserve the Constitution given by the founders, and who were defending their families and homes from rape, destruction and pillage is a total disgrace to us all.

May the Lord bless you with insight and wisdom to see your wrong.

Those who don’t remember history are doomed to repeat it.  Was the War of Southern Independence a “good war”. NO. Brutal death, destruction and devestation followed. The South suffered for years. But, should we remember and honor those who died in this savagery. YES. Senseless war should always be remembered. Vietnam and now Iraq come to mind.  In a country that the news is more consumed about what Britany Spears is up to today then what soldiers died in Iraq needs more memorials to sensely war. Yes, the Civil War was sensless and a horrible waste. But remember, so we don’t do it again and again and again.  Honor the dead, not the concept they died for.