"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men."
--Samuel Adams

We have just completed one phase of the busiest part of the year for many active descendants of Confederate Veterans, Confederate History and Heritage Month. There is more to come for some states that observe the memorial holidays at some upcoming date.

Starting out, acknowledgement must be made for the fine poetry that Joan Hough provided and dedicated to the staff of hard working volunteers at the Georgia Heritage Council. I'm humbled that such a talented lady would take the time to even think of me.

The CH&H Month was an especially busy one this year since we were challenged as never before by those who would remove any mention of the Confederacy from all pubic view---we call them the "heritage deniers." When these miscreants criticize the history of the struggle for American liberty and Independence, one that continues today, they have become so rude, hateful and untruthful.

Unlike the earlier days not too distant when there was blue and gray and some mutual respect, there is a certain group of people who are working at provoking Southerners in hopes we will react in some way they can call traitors or potentional terrorists. Fortunately, most of us have maintained our dignity and our birthright by well thought and intellectually superior reactions to hair brained political correctness and thinly disguised attempts at political payback for their own reversals at the hands of "the consent of the governed".

Some of our readers know that several members of the GHC crew do a large part of the work of the Public Relations Committee for the Sons of the Confederate Veterans. Steve Scroggins and Jim Dean joined me in working with our Commander-in-Chief, Chuck McMichael, in crafting his leadership and public position on the attempted political lynching of the governor of Virginia regarding his proclamation on CHM.

The SCV has had more exposure to the public than at any time in its history with hundreds of columns, pro and con, in newspapers and appearances on virtually all the national television cable networks, some several times by different spokespeople.

In the meantime, our GHC website continues to jump rapidly with new viewers every day and is regularly listed in the worldwide search engines along with a growing list of fans/friends at our Facebook site.

"Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so just, so sacred, that had I known all that has come to pass, had I known what was to be inflicted upon me, all that my country was to suffer, all that our posterity was to endure, I would do it all over again."
--Jefferson Davis

"We could have pursued no other course without dishonour; and as sad as the results have been, if it had all to be done over again, we should be compelled to act in precisely the same manner."
--Robert E. Lee