{"id":1517,"date":"2015-05-25T09:04:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T13:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eddiejones.org\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2015-05-25T09:10:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T13:10:19","slug":"in-memory-of-all-our-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eddiejones.org\/in-memory-of-all-our-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memory of All Our Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1518\" src=\"https:\/\/eddiejones.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2014-07-21-04.17.37-200x113.jpg\" alt=\"he North Carolina monument is southwest of Gettysburg on West Confederate Avenue\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eddiejones.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2014-07-21-04.17.37-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/eddiejones.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2014-07-21-04.17.37-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/eddiejones.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2014-07-21-04.17.37-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/eddiejones.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2014-07-21-04.17.37-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eddiejones.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2014-07-21-04.17.37-760x428.jpg 760w, https:\/\/eddiejones.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2014-07-21-04.17.37-518x291.jpg 518w, https:\/\/eddiejones.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2014-07-21-04.17.37-82x46.jpg 82w, https:\/\/eddiejones.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2014-07-21-04.17.37-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>On this day, when we remember those who fought to keep our nation free and liberate the oppressed, allow me to offer a native North Carolinian&#8217;s perspective on why Southerners honor our dead with such passion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vaudc.org\/confed_vets.html\" target=\"_blank\">Most historians believe that only six percent of Southerners owned slaves<\/a>. Thus, it&#8217;s probable\u00a0that of the 289,000\u00a0Confederate dead, 271, 660\u00a0never owned a slave. For them, the struggle was to protect their homes and be left alone. Even then, many had no choice but to fight for the South. On April 16, 1862, President Jefferson Davis authorized the first Conscription Act. This legislation required all white males aged eighteen to thirty-five to serve three years of Confederate service if called.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vaudc.org\/confed_vets.html\" target=\"_blank\">Author James I. Robertson, Jr., author of <em>Tenting Tonight<\/em> writes<\/a>, &#8220;Just as most Northerners did not fight to end slavery, most Southerners did not fight to preserve it. The rank and file of the Southern armies was composed of farmers and laborers who volunteered to protect home and everything dear from Northern invaders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As a nation, we have come\u00a0to accept that those who fought in Vietnam did their duty, regardless of their\u00a0leaders&#8217; motives and purpose behind\u00a0that war.<\/p>\n<p>While I cannot\u00a0condone the enslavement of any human, I can still honor those men on both sides who, when summoned, left their homes\u00a0and did their duty. Thanks to all the men and women who fought and continue to fight for our nation&#8217;s freedom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day, when we remember those who fought to keep our nation free and liberate the oppressed, allow me to offer a native North Carolinian&#8217;s perspective on why Southerners honor our dead with such passion. Most historians believe that only six percent of Southerners owned slaves. Thus, it&#8217;s probable\u00a0that of the 289,000\u00a0Confederate dead, 271, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>In Memory of All Our Soldiers - Eddie Jones - Author<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eddiejones.org\/in-memory-of-all-our-soldiers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In Memory of All Our Soldiers - Eddie Jones - Author\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On this day, when we remember those who fought to keep our nation free and liberate the oppressed, allow me to offer a native North Carolinian&#8217;s perspective on why Southerners honor our dead with such passion. 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