Last time I was at Arlington there were mass graves from the civil war. These graves were of soldiers believed to have fought and died in the Civil War, but, were unidentified. To heal the nation the Confederate soldiers were buried in our national cemetery. Rightfully so. They are Americans. The only reservation is they were committing treason at the time of their deaths.
There was also an investigation not long ago about misdirected activity and the investigation began around mass graves.
6/19/2011
6/19/2011
ARLINGTON, VA. — The U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command (click here) is conducting an criminal investigation into the mishandling of remains at Arlington National Cemetery.
The first part of the investigation concerns eight sets of cremated remains found in a single mass grave, Christopher Grey, spokesman for the commandtion, said at a press conference Wednesday at the cemetery.
The FBI is working with the Army on the investigation, begun in October. Grey said that the investigation concerns possible contract fraud and falsification of records, but that no current cemetery administration officials are involved. While multiple urns were placed in a single grave, Grey said multiple burial is not a criminal act....
Now if the country recognized the Confederate soldier as an American worthy of being buried in the national cemetery along with their Union brothers, then why the Confederate Memorial in Alabama? And why the commemoration?
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on April 27, 2009 at 1:22 PM
updated April 27, 2009 at 1:39 PM
MONTGOMERY -- The Alabama state holiday (click here) for Confederate Memorial Day was observed by about 120 people who gathered around the Confederate Monument at the state Capitol.
Now if the country recognized the Confederate soldier as an American worthy of being buried in the national cemetery along with their Union brothers, then why the Confederate Memorial in Alabama? And why the commemoration?
By on April 27, 2009 at 1:22 PM
updated April 27, 2009 at 1:39 PM
MONTGOMERY -- The Alabama state holiday (click here) for Confederate Memorial Day was observed by about 120 people who gathered around the Confederate Monument at the state Capitol.
The Alabama Commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Robert Reames of Birmingham, said the observance today had nothing to do with race or hate. He said it was an opportunity to remember ancestors.
Participants came dressed in everything from hoop skirts and sun bonnets to modern-day motorcycle jackets. They sang "Dixie" and called out the names of relatives who fought for the Confederacy.
Alabama actually has a legislated Confederate Memorial Day? You've got to be joking.
Excuse me?
‘There is glory in graves,’ (click here) reads the inscription on the Confederate Monument that stands in the center of Selma’s National Historic Register Cemetery. Visitors who stroll beneath its ancient oaks and magnolias draped in Spanish moss, will find glory, humor and pathos in the lives whose stories are told here.
Anyone is allowed their own opinions, but, not their own facts.
In the Spring of 1865 as the United States' conquest of the independent Southern Confederacy neared completion a particularly loathsome US General James Wilson set out to loot, burn and otherwise destroy as much of central Alabama as possible...
See, that descriptor tells me Union General James Wilson should have been tried and sentenced for war crimes. But, he really wasn't loathsome, now was he? He didn't rape and plunder Selma, he conquered it. His nemesis was a Confederate General by the name of Nathan Bedford Forrest. Confederate General Forrest was known to be very successful again the Union forces.
As a matter of fact if it wasn't for General Wilson's brilliant strategy against Forrest the Battle of Franklin would not have been won by the Union forces. So, the truth of the matter is simple. When the Confederate General Forrest had his butt kicked by the Union forces, General Wilson went on to completely disarm Selma to prevent Forrest from reconstituting his military.
The Union Generals really didn't want to revisit a victory once it had been achieved. That moral content was to prevent further southern deaths and to bring the Civil War of greed and oppression to an end as soon as was possible.
The Confederate Memorial and it's commemoration is laced with lies and hubris and serves no foundation purpose to our country.
Excuse me?
‘There is glory in graves,’ (click here) reads the inscription on the Confederate Monument that stands in the center of Selma’s National Historic Register Cemetery. Visitors who stroll beneath its ancient oaks and magnolias draped in Spanish moss, will find glory, humor and pathos in the lives whose stories are told here.
Anyone is allowed their own opinions, but, not their own facts.
In the Spring of 1865 as the United States' conquest of the independent Southern Confederacy neared completion a particularly loathsome US General James Wilson set out to loot, burn and otherwise destroy as much of central Alabama as possible...See, that descriptor tells me Union General James Wilson should have been tried and sentenced for war crimes. But, he really wasn't loathsome, now was he? He didn't rape and plunder Selma, he conquered it. His nemesis was a Confederate General by the name of Nathan Bedford Forrest. Confederate General Forrest was known to be very successful again the Union forces.
As a matter of fact if it wasn't for General Wilson's brilliant strategy against Forrest the Battle of Franklin would not have been won by the Union forces. So, the truth of the matter is simple. When the Confederate General Forrest had his butt kicked by the Union forces, General Wilson went on to completely disarm Selma to prevent Forrest from reconstituting his military.
The Union Generals really didn't want to revisit a victory once it had been achieved. That moral content was to prevent further southern deaths and to bring the Civil War of greed and oppression to an end as soon as was possible.
The Confederate Memorial and it's commemoration is laced with lies and hubris and serves no foundation purpose to our country.
