Response to reading

After reading the chapter from Confederates in the Attic I was shocked to believe that people devote their lives and all spare time to learning and praising the Confederates and their ancestors who participated in the Civil War. I have live in the South my whole life, I have played sports in the town of Salisbury, I went to a high-school that was predominantly southern heritage whites, but I have never met anyone as obsessed with the war as the people in this chapter. I don't doubt that these types of people do exist, but i think the chapter doesn't do a good job making it known that they only make up a small portion of the population. I don't have a problem with people having celebrations and meetings to honor the confederates as long as they don't make it a public event and interupt the lives of people not involved in that kind of society. I like the fact that the writer got the opinion of the other side of the spectrum to help keep his opinion unbiased. It seems as though the writer gave more consideration to the confederate people, but if you think about it the chapter was on the confedrates and the last few pages were just to see what the other side thought about how they acted.
Many people in this chapter are too focused on their history rather than their future. For instance the guy who was dying lof leukemia, he was using his last few months to learn more about the confederacy. If I was on my last few months, I would be enjoying life with my family not spitting tobacco in an old gun shop talking about the Civil War. I'm not saying its unimportant for students and people to learn and know about the civil war, I just think the people in this chapter are taking it a little too far, I know they don't feel the same way, but agree to disagree.