Nothing innocent about Civil War days
The local ABC television affiliate is currently running a promotional spot on the airwaves touting its sponsorship of the annual Civil War Re-enactment at Kearney Park. The script, in part, reads: “A Time of Innocence,” as white children sing a folk song in the background.
As any high school student should know, it was a four-year war of unprecedented tragedy, because the Founding Fathers refused to abolish the abhorrent institution of slavery 80 years prior. Nearly two-thirds of a million soldiers died, and hundreds of thousands of Africans were held in bondage, murdered and brutalized. A time of innocence? Really?
Sean Boyd, Fresno
This story was originally published October 17, 2015 at 7:00 AM with the headline "Nothing innocent about Civil War days."