We will always have our Confederate

history, and we will celebrate. I missed one issue of the paper so I never

read his answer to my question, "Are you one of the people waiting

for a check from the government for your relatives who were slaves?"

Now let's deal with Heidi Vehr's

letter of May 23. In the South they did raise cotton. What she and a few

other Northerners don't understand is white folks picked cotton too. In

fact, summer vacation in the South was initiated so that every child old

enough would be home in the summer to pick cotton. Most elderly white

people still on this earth will tell you about the hot sun and the hard

work that was the life of a farmer.

During the war, farmers were

so poor they had a hard time feeding their children, so owning a slave

wasn't in the budget. She refers to a quote from Lincoln about slaves

and the South, but he and a lot of other Yankees try to forget about the

slaves that were up North.

It always amazes me that when

a carpetbagger comes South, their first agenda is to change the heritage

of the South. Most of us born here with Confederate heritage never had

any desire to move to the North and change the brass, rude ways of the

people up North. We will always commemorate our heritage, we love our

history, our Confederate ancestors and nothing will change that. We will

continue to commemorate, commemorate, commemorate.

LeGay Saul

Fayetteville