In any PROFESSION, there's a sleazy SIDE and an HONORABLE side.
My GREAT-GRANDFATHER and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their MOTIVATIONS were HONORABLE when they undertook the war and participated in it ALONG with other Southerners.
My INDIVIDUAL way of taking on the burdens of history has CHANGED. I don't THINK of them only as burdens; I think they are honorable.