Dear Ms. Lunelle,
On Monday at noon on January 23, 2023 twenty of my babies would find their way to my door…four of which would be from the North. After their greetings and prayers for my health, the comments and questions would begin:
“Mr. HK”, would come the first inquiry from Mary, “we have all read your recent Open Letter and Open Report about our last visit here. We told our Northern friends about your conversation about President Woodrow Wilson, however there was no mention of him in your Report. Was it because you felt that he was an over zealous supporter of Lincoln?”
“For me, Wilson was almost a clone of Seidule; a confirmed DNA Traitor. Born in Staunton, Virginia , on a speaking tour to the League of Nations in 1919 he said ‘now mind you I was born in the South, but I can say that tribute with all my heart to the men of the North who saved the Unión.’
However, as nationalist writers in both North and South began to champion the Honorable General Robert E. Lee as a National hero, Wilson joined in the nationwide tribute to Lee's memory. In an Address at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 1909, he declared that Lee's status as a National Hero means simply that there are “no sections in this country anymore." Although Lee won his chief celebrity in the
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