What are we to teach them?

我们应该教他们什么
If we cannot teach them that

如果我们教导他们说
their fathers were right,

他们父亲的所作所为是正确的
it follows that these Southern children must be taught that they were wrong.

那么他们肯定会被告知父辈们是错的
I never will be ready to have my children taught that I was ever wrong,

我永远都不会让我的孩子听到我是错的
or that the cause of my people was unjust and unholy.

我们人民的事业是正义而神圣的
Oh my friends,

噢我的朋友们
you were right, but we were right too."

你们是正确的但是我们也是"
Everybody was right, nobody was wrong,

大家都是对的没有人是错的
in a war that killed 620,000 people

虽然在这场战争中有62万人牺牲
and maimed about 1.2 million,

120万人受伤
and transformed the society.

并使社会发生了巨大变化