"With Malice towards None" Abraham Lincoln

So, did some civil war sight seeing today.  Went to Appomattox, the place where General Lee and General Grant met to arrange a surrender by the confederate army...effectively ending the civil war.  I watched a movie at the museum and I just am amazed at the concept of a "gentlemans war"..

If all wars could be ended by a handshake and "With Malice towards none"...the confederate soldiers layed down their arms,  the Union soldiers saluted them, gave them a horse, a pardon, and sent them back home to be with their families....after all, the confederate soldiers were their neighbors, childhood friends, family members...Civil war, civilized war...

Seeing the battlefields, watching and reading the history of our nation...Why is it just now that everyone is so fucking against our southern heritage...it is just that southern heritage, why does all the monuments have to be taken down?  I think if these fuckwads would just read and learn more about the civil war then maybe their opinions would change....The civil war was 4 years and ended on a handshake...Black soldiers, young boys, dads, sons, farmers etc...just regular folk, not soldiers fought died and surrendered for fighting a war that was basically just to be able to keep their way of life....but in the end a side had to win...and the victory was bittersweet...but from that, a new way of life, a new country was born...a stronger country...an independent country...a proud country...America.

Every single person has baggage...the baggage of the civil war?  slavery...but it was ended, finished wiped away by a handshake.   President Lincoln said to the Generals at Appomattox..."With Malice towards none"  What a beautiful president..concerned for the people, the south,  wow...

Those confederate flags, confederate monuments..I say leave them...they're reminders of the "baggage" of the civil war...a constant reminder that slavery WAS abolished, ALL men became free...it is a great memory...Not a bad memory...

I am thinking about a new tattoo...maybe a confederate/union flag intertwined with the words "With Malice towards None"  in other words  "love respect and treat all men equally"...

I never want or intent Malice on anyone...not even my enemies...no one is better than anyone else, we all bleed red blood...