This Just Amazes Me….

On October 10, 2005, I made one of my first posts on this blog. It shows up as p. 23 on the blog. By comparison, this is p. 579. That post dealt with all of the reasons why I’m no fan of Nathan Bedford Forrest.

What amazes me about it is that people continue to post comments to this particular post two years later. I had a new comment posted there tonight. A number of them have contained nasty personal attacks on me just because I don’t buy into their hero worship of Forrest. Each of those has been deleted because I don’t allow personal attacks on me on my own blog.

To give the latest poster credit, he was courteous and rational in his discussion. Thank you for your civility.

Let me just say a couple of things about this…

1. NOTHING that any of you say is going to change my mind about this issue. I appreciate the effort. I really do. However, I’ve spent years pondering it, and I’m quite set in my opinion. There’s not much point in trying to convince me–you’re going to fail and you’re going to waste your breath in the process.

2. That a two-year old post continues to generate comments is proof positive that Forrest is an extremely controversial figure that continues to polarize opinions. I don’t ever see that particular trend changing.

3. The ferocity of the Forrest supporters is really amazing. I can’t think of another Civil War figure who generates such ferocious responses as does Nathan Bedford Forrest. Why is that?

As I said, this whole thing just flabbergasts me. I can only hope that this ends sooner or later…However, I don’t have any reason to expect that it will…..