Get off my property

[Del Arroyo]

I hate to butt in, and I don't have time to read all of the lengthening back and forth between Redled and AdrianII-- but I have some comments.

To AdrianII-- Redleg has a point. There is a big difference between expressing grief and EXPLOITING grief. Sheehan is exploiting grief. She probably enjoys the attention and is seduced by the idea that she is doing something important. But she has compromised her integrity.

And, having read a bit about the civil war, I can concur that Sheehan's protest would have fallen under the definition of "aiding and comforting" the enemy in the minds of Union men at the time. Though not everyone who expressed dissent in the North was in fact silenced-- this was one fact which U.S. Grant commented on with annoyance (not protest) in his memoirs, while noting that the South seemed to be much stricter on this count.

To Redleg-- While your references to the Civil War are accurate, and while I realize you didn't bring it into the discussion, I will say that the Civil War was, in fact, a civil war. Think about it. It is a very different situation from a war against an external enemy.

DA