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A Privilege To Hear From You

From: JOHN STORMS [mailto:MSSIPEMUDBUG@AOL.COM]
Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007

DEAR MR. H.K., SIR:

AGAIN IT IS A PRIVILAGE TO HEAR FROM YOU AS YOU DEFEND YOUR/OUR ANCESTORS. I TOOK NOTE OF THE MESSAGE ABOUT EDWARDS AND I AM ORIGINALLY FROM MISSOURI SO I KNOW ABOUT WHAT YOU MEAN ABOUT JOHN McCAIN. HE ALSO WANTED TO SEND THOUSANDS MORE TROOPS TO BE SLAUGHTERED IN IRAQ. BUT SIR, YOU ARE A REAL GENTLEMAN TO BE ABLE TO BE AN AFRICAN AMERICAN SON OF A CONFEDERATE ANCESTOR. IT MUST BE HARD DEALING WITH ALL THOSE HATE MONGERS AND ILL INFORMED. I LIKE YOU CANNOT SEEM TO GET INTO A YANKEE'S HEAD THAT THE WAR WAS NOT BEGUN ABOUT SLAVERY. I ALWAYS TRY TO BASH OLE UNION GEN. SHERMAN WHO BURNED AND MURDERED ANYTHING BREATHING OR GROWING FROM ATLANTA TO SAVANNAH SHORES. WOMEN AND CHILDREN WERE RAPED BY HIS TROOPS AND THEN MURDERED. HE EVEN MURDERED THE SLAVES AND RAPED THEIR WOMEN AND MOLESTED THEIR CHILDREN. IF THERE WAS ONE MAN THAT NEEDED TO BE HUNG AFTER THE WAR IT WAS HIM. IF I WERE AROUND I WOULD HAVE SHOT HIM, MYSELF. WHY PICK ON THE POOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN BACK HOME? THEY WERE NOT SOLDIERS. THEY WERE JUST CITIZENS OF A CERTAIN PART OF THE COUNTRY THAT SHERMAN DETESTED. IT MUST HAVE BEEN LIKE SHOOTING FISH IN A BARREL.

THANKS AGAIN MR. H.K., AS ALWAYS I VALUE YOUR OPENION AND I WILL NEVER FORGET YOUR FAMOUS WALK. YOU ARE A TRUE SOUTHERNER. MY GG GRANDFATHER WAS A LT. IN THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI ARMY MaCDONALDS CO. B 10th MO. CONVEDERATE CAVELRY. HE FOUGHT SEVERAL BATTLES IN MO. AND THREE HERE IN MISS. I RETIRED HERE, JUST 50 MILES N/E OF THE BIG EASY. EXCEPT FOR THE FORTHY FOOT WATER OVER MY OLD HOME FROM KATRINA I LOVE MY LAND. AT LEAST I OWN IT AND CAN ALWAYS REBUILD.

IT'S FUNNY HOW IN MISSOURI NEAR KC,MO HOW AWFUL THE BLACK AND WHITE FOLKS GET ALONG AND THE CREOLE, CAJUN, AND WHITE FOLKS HERE IN THE BAYOU AREA DON'T SEE OF MENTION ANYONE'S RACE. I GUESS THAT IS WHY I FELL IN LOVE WITH THE MISS. GULF COAST. I WAS STATIONED AT KEESLER AFB. DURING THE VIETNAM WAR AS A MEDIC.

WELL SIR, I SHALL GET OFF HERE NOW. I AM SURE YOU HAVE READ ENOUGH. GOD BLESS YOU,

JOHN STORMS
MISS SCV & MOS&B
(DEO VINDICE)