A Voice from the Past

   On our journey home this past Sunday from Chattanooga, we made a few stops, going to smaller towns along our route, to take pictures of some of the older courthouses that grace the downtowns of these Georgia county seats. As an example this is the county courthouse in Forsythe, GA, the county seat of Monroe County:

 

   On the grounds of these buildings, there is the inevitable statute of a soldier from the era of the Civil War.

 

   And engraved on some of the monuments are sentiments that depict the attitude of Southerners even years after the conflict. This one is in Dodge Country, GA:

 

   The writing in this shot is kinda hard to read, but it is this:

   "No Nation rose so Pure and White;
     None fell so Spotless"

   Think on those lines for a while...

   The monument with this quote was dedicated in 1910, 45 years after the end of this conflict. Right or wrong, it is still the attitude of a lot of people in the South today.

   If the United States of America ever falls and monuments are erected to her, what will those epitaphs say about her?