First of all, I wish to state that I teach history. I do not try to erase it, and I do not desecrate graves, like the “politically correct” did in Memphis and elsewhere.
I understand why corrupt political nonentities like the mayors of Memphis and New Orleans would want Confederate statues removed. They want to divert the voters’ attention from their demonstrated incompetency and the abject failure of their administrations, especially in the area of crime control, and who better to attack than men long since dead? In Memphis, it also provided a fine smoke-screen.
The mayor transferred a whole city block worth millions to one of his political cronies for $1,000. The fact that they probably broke every Sunshine law and public bidding law ever written is, to them, incidental.
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Confederate Veterans are United States Veterans by an Act of Congress signed into law by a President.
ReplyDeleteAny ill treatment of a Confederate Monument should be regarded as an insult to and attack on the memorial to a United States Memorial and to the United States Veterans it memorializes.
After about ten years plus after the Civil War, the Veterans of the North and South discovered that each other was their best allies and many great friendships resulted from their cooperation. Back then the United States Government was shortchanging the American Veterans on promises that were made to them. Who could have imagined that?
I am pretty sure the preceding sentence is dripping in sarcasm.
Back then the United States Government was shortchanging the American Veterans on promises that were made to them. Who could have imagined that?
DeleteI am pretty sure the preceding sentence is dripping in sarcasm.
Yes an there are no votes from the dead.