Those bastard spoiled brats
Patriots who somehow won the Super Bowl now don’t want to wait for Saturday for
a parade in their honor in Boston. They will be scattered all over wherever
already by then so the Parade will be during this week surrounded by snow
storms crippling the Boston area. You would think they would be honored to
stand and wave at the crowds of fans that sacrificed their hard earned money to
waste on tickets and shirts to line the player’s pockets with millions of
dollars. Their now or never attitude is
a slap in the face to the fans who work for a living during the week and to the
Boston area that has to now scramble to get the snow removed faster for a parade
now.
They don’t even deserve to use
the name Patriots. An American Patriot is a very special human being. We all
know that war is stupid. It is almost as stupid as the game of football where
able bodied men deliberately stare each other in the eye and then try to injure
each other for no reason other than to dominate in yardage to get to the other
side and win points. The real Patriots put their lives at risk for a cause, for
freedom and many died to make life easier for their fellow Americans. I choose
to honor them not a stupid football team that pays no taxes.
Some American Patriots wore grey
and some wore blue and the land that they fought on for a cause should be
considered very valuable. It was about 150 years ago in 1854 that the Union and
Confederate soldiers fought their way across fields in Tennessee and
Pennsylvania. On some of the fields
there were 10,000 deaths of brave men. Nearly 1,500 Confederate bodies are
buried in one place nearby where reenactment battles take place now. It is called The McGavock Confederate Cemetery. All of them no matter what uniform they wore
died to make us all Americans. Sadly
today if you research the battlegrounds and visit the areas you will see them
being transformed into golf courses or shopping centers.
We need to make these places
historic sites where people can visit and at least remember their own history.
Now there is a war raging to reclaim Civil War Battlefields. 30-40 acres per day are gone to future
developments. There are some people who have formed a Civil War Trust where the
funds donated go directly into buying lands that need to be preserved. Gettysburg was the site of the bloodiest
battle ever on United States soil. It became a National Military Park in 1895
but significant important places were left out including Confederate Robert E.
Lee’s headquarters. There is a motel there now. According to the Trust people
40% of the lands have been lost.
The front lines then are still
the front lines now even 150 years later. Let’s respect the real Patriots this
weekend; our Civil War hero’s.
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