Yes, it does get confusing. I never had strong feelings about Andrew Jackson one way or another, always nice to see a familiar face on the $20 bill but not really sure who decides which face should go there. I do not feel myself compelled to participate in bashing of Andrew Jackson that is perpetuated at the Richmond meeting ad infinitum, so does that make me a Confederate rebel? A quick review of history shows that Andrew Jackson was a stickler on points of legal tender, even to the point of dueling to the death, thus shooting a man dead, to defend his marital honor, even though it might actually have been his own wife's sloppy paperwork that provoked a crisis. Fortunately for us the obligation of dueling is no longer extant in the land, and yet the history of Jackson's confused affairs will always be there in the history books perhaps to prove a point. We want our legal tender to matter and have actual face value. So why are people obsessing about all this no-value counterfeit paperwork?
Most people just think that Andrew Jackson was a patriotic military hero in defending the shores of America against an invading army. Most people in the armed forces would probably do the same under orders in certain circumstances. So?
