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Flag Day 2012 – 1861, And The War Came

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It’s Flag Day 2012. Do you recognize this flag? Read on.

Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish.

And the war came.”

– Abraham Lincoln, from his Second Inaugural Address (1865)

Indeed, it did. Below is the flag that flew over Fort Sumter, the beginning of what seems more and more to me to be a pyrrhic victory to restore the Union:


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Michael Matheron

From Presidents Ronald Reagan through George W. Bush, I was a senior legislative research and policy staff of the nonpartisan Library of Congress Congressional Research Service (CRS). I'm partisan here, an "aggressive progressive." I'm a contributor to The Fold and Nation of Change. Welcome to They Will Say ANYTHING! Come back often! . . . . . Michael Matheron, contact me at mjmmoose@gmail.com

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