Today's 150th Anniversary of the beginning of the US Civil War

Today is the 150th anniversary of the Southerners and their "Confederacy" waging war on the US so they could attempt to secede from the Union.

Lessons to be learned (I repeat):

--It was to fight for slavery

--It was wrong

--They lost.


Note:  When PBS' series "Slavery by Another Name", based on Douglas A. Blackmon's book comes out, don't miss it.  It's the history and education the country doesn't want us to know but that we owe to African-Americans and ourselves, frankly, to know and understand.  It isn't pretty but it's important we see and know it.  Unfortunately, it's not coming out until 2012.

It can't come out soon enough.

Links:  http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
http://www.slaverybyanothername.com/
http://www.slaverybyanothername.com/homepage-feature-1/coming-to-pbs-%E2%80%93-fall-2011/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_newsroom/20110412/us_yblog_newsroom/rare-civil-war-photos-document-life-between-battles
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Rare-Civil-War-Photos/ss/events/us/041211civilwarphotos