Gov. McDonnell, have you lost your mind?

Has the governor of Virginia, Bob McDonnell, completely lost his mind?

Yesterday he wanted to proclaim the month of April as "Confederacy Appreciation Month" to observe Virginia's role, proudly might have you, in the Civil War, and fly that sickening Confederate flag atop the taxpayer-owned Virginia state house.

The American civil war was the bloodiest and most darkest period in American history. There was nothing to be "proud" about it. Family members fought on opposite sides of the battlefield, which was often in neighborhoods and farmers' fields.

And it wasn't over slavery, or even state's rights. It was one side of a debate--the south-- that couldn't take the other side--the north-- winning, so they let their anger goad them into picking up rifles, aiming them at the other side and opening fire. Which sounds a lot like today, with how we're divided between red state and blue state, conservative and liberal, and how the cable news channels are fueling this fire into an inferno.

History is important because young people need to learn if they're going to proceed into the future, they need to know where they've been. For this, Gov. McDonnell, Virginia's young people need to learn that their state's involvement in the Civil War was one of hatred, not pride.

And you can start by taking that Confederate flag down from the statehouse flagpole and burning it.