Probably Very Unpopular Idea by James Pate Williams, Jr., BA, BS, MSwE, PhD

I know this post will disturb some of my black friends, but this is the way I feel. There were some very decent, good, and noble Confederates fighting in the Civil War, and thus should be honored on Memorial Day, not Veterans Day since that is traditionally a WWI remembrance. Captain and later Rear Admiral and General in the Confederacy Raphael Semmes was a very caring and noble privateer (commerce raider or pirate). He set the crews of the ships he and the CSS Alabama captured free and only destroyed only empty US commerce ships. Also, the CSS Alabama put up a hell of a fight against the USS Kearsarge off Cherbourg Harbor, France on June 19, 1864:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cherbourg_%281864%29

My idea is put a large Confederate flag from the era June 1864 in our Confederate Soldier Park on the corner of Ridley Avenue and Morgan Street next year.

I am going to honor my four misguided blood kin who fought in Confederate States Army by wearing a  gray Confederate cap that I bought along with a Union cap at the Legacy Museum half the time while I out around town walking. The other half I will honor my uncles (WWII and Korea, WWII, respectively) and the Union Army by wearing a Union cap.

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Author: jamespatewilliamsjr

My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.

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