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  • Fiction
    • The Noon to Forever (Every Day Fiction)
    • Shadows of the Night (The J.J. Outre Review)
    • Iraq Poem
    • Johnny Rocket Lives Forever on the Moon
    • Dammit, Ensign!
  • Essays
    • Resigning from the Navy
    • Seniority and Promotions to Lieutenant
    • Camp Speicher Massacre
    • The Crozier Affair
    • Tell Me I Suck
    • A Different Tack: Shipboard Mishaps and PTSD
    • The Three-Vessel Problem
    • Retrospective
    • They Fought for Their Rights
    • Retrospective (2 of… ?)
    • Navy Officer Accessions, SARBs, and the Nuke Draft
    • Retrospective 3
    • Five Reads of The Caine Mutiny
  • Flash Posts
    • FP1 – Integrity: A Sea Non-Story
    • FP2 – Still Valley
    • FP3 – The Lingering Dread of TDRL
    • FP4 – Looking Down from the Bridge
    • FP5 – When We Move On
    • FP6 – Reactions to a First Case
    • FP7 – Cowardice in Afghanistan
    • FP8 – Military Transition and Mental Health
    • FP9 – The Military’s Free Expression Problem
    • FP10 – Farewell, National Defense Service Medal
    • FP11 – Review: The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (2023)
    • FP12 – Two Eclipses
    • FP13 – Watch Team Remus
    • FP14 – On Bertolt Brecht’s “The Interrogation of the Good”

Tag Archives: Pickett

They Fought for Their Rights

They fought for their rights… and the Confederate Army hanged them for it.

Posted bySongs of BabylonFebruary 15, 2021January 3, 2023Posted inBlog Posts, EssaysTags:Civil War, Heritage not Hate, Kinston, Lost Cause, North Carolina, Pickett1 Comment on They Fought for Their Rights
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