year along with my three young daughters. It was a wonderful experience
complete with everything that makes for the quintessential parade: a perfect
fall day, dignitaries, marching bands, civic organizations, cool cars, awesome
military vehicles and an enthusiastic crowd. It made me proud to be an American,
and I was thrilled to have my home-schooled daughters engaged in such a participatory
civics lesson. However, amidst all those perfect components, there was one element
that I found to be profoundly out of place. Right behind our float was a group of
Confederate re-enactors in gray wool uniforms, carrying Confederate battle flags.
Before you make assumptions about me and stop reading, let me set the record straight.
I am a 38 year old white evangelical Christian, and I am conservative politically,
economically and socially. I was born and raised right here in South Carolina, and
I have ancestors on both sides of my family who fought for the Confederacy.
- Turn The Other Cheek
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