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Inheriting Hatred

Two decades after the Civil War, North and South still had not achieved reconciliation. Such a reconciliation would not succeed unless it was achieved by the generation that fought the war. Should that generation die unreconciled, its hatreds would become the next generation's legacy, and would be perpetuated. It is a historical truism that inheriting hatreds is a near inevitability, eradicating them a near impossibility.

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