I've posted before about the ongoing battle over Oakwood Cemetery in Richmond. (See here and here) Oakwood has more (17,000) combat-related Confederate graves than any cemetery in the United States. But the current U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs administration doesn't want to honor these veterans with any proper V.A. issued headstones. I think they're playing politics. What an absolute disgrace.
As Lee Hart of the SCV noted in a recent Richmond Times piece about the ongoing battle:
"This is total, total discrimination," said F. Lee Hart III of Suffolk, chairman of the SCV Oakwood Restoration Committee. "I don't think they want to see an Arlington of Richmond, with all of the positive media and tourism that this cemetery will draw, this being the largest combat casualty Confederate cemetery."
Brock:
ReplyDeleteAs you probably already know, since 06 June 1900, the United States government, by act of Congress, is required to regard all Confederate soldiers as if they were military war veterans of the United States.
On the VA web site, it even describes a special marker designated just for Confederate graves.
http://www.cem.va.gov/hm/hmcivil.asp
Thus, the Department of Veterans Affairs is obligated by federal law to restore and/or maintain the gravesites of Confederate dead.
The problem we have, in this contemporary age of Marxist inspired "political correctness", is who is going to enforce this law?
Can someone, or some organization, formally bring suit in a federal court?
Thank you.
John Robert Mallernee
Armed Forces Retirement Home
Gulfport, Mississippi 39507
I would like them replaced, but when I ordered some for my ancestors, it clearly stated that they would only furnish them if there was not one already.
ReplyDeleteThis is a prime example once again of the spitting upon the Confederate Veteran. Where has the dignity of America gone? It certainly was not that way when I grew up.
ReplyDeleteT Warren