Rosanne Cash wrote an open letter condemning supremacism in any form. It was in reference to someone wearing a shirt with Johnny Cash's image on it, and a desire to make clear that he wasn't associated with their movement.
Billboard magazine elected to reprint a 1964 letter by Johnny Cash himself, one that was aimed at standing up for Native Americans. I assume everyone here knows the Ballad of Ira Hayes, who was one of the Marines at Iwo Jima as well as a member of the Pima people. Cash was a good guy for standing up for anyone who'd had a hard shake.
He also sang songs about the Civil War, including a version of the one Raven posted in the comments the other day.
It's a pretty good example of what "Heritage, not Hate" looks like when it's true.
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http://www.joshualawrencechamberlain.com/surrenderofleekennebec.php
The right hand column (General Less's surrender) has some very moving eyewitness accounts of the surrender, including the battered, war hardened Confederate veterans breaking into tears when receiving three cheers from the Union soldiers, and Chamberlain ordering his troops to Present Arms to the ragged bunch marching by.
One can spell out differences, but the two sides knew each other in the most intimate terms, terms most have only the foggiest notion of-
they were step-brothers in blood- each knew exactly what the other had gone through, bound together like the north and south poles of a magnet. They knew war. And yet, their grandsons would share foxholes in France.
A great reconciliation was achieved, admittedly after many abuses and much anger.
Now, we have groups trying to stir things up that have mostly been laid to rest. A pox on both their houses.
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