Posted on 07/09/2015 1:30:24 PM PDT by bryan999
Late Tuesday, the Memphis, Tennessee, City Council voted unanimously to dig up the remains of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife, Talking Points Memo reported Wednesday. The council also voted to remove a statue placed in Forrest's honor. The move came after Mayor A.C. Wharton called for the bodies to be dug up and relocated.
Tuesday's vote is not the end of the story, however. According to WREG, the Chancery Court would also have to approve the removal of the remains and Forrest's family would also be involved in the decision.
Forrest and his wife are currently buried beneath a statute honoring the general in a park which had been named after him until two years ago. The park is now known as Memphis' Health Sciences Park.
Officials with Elmwood Cemetery -- the location of Forrest's original resting place -- said they would be willing to help move the remains but said they did not want to become the new home of the statue. It is not known where the statue would go if the Tennessee Historic Commission approves its removal. The commission is not set to meet before October.
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May I remind you, Charles Joseph “Charlie” Crist, Jr, when he is running for office, has a “Beard” also.
Obama also has Michelle!
Thank you. I appreciate your willing and polite discussion as well. Typically, these boil down to name-calling and cussing contests. So much more can be accomplished through polite discourse.
I would concede to keep the monuments on the battlefields in many cases, particularly in cases like this one. It disturbs me that the removal of battlefield monuments is actually being discussed or implemented at this time.
On another front, did you see that ISIS vows to destroy the pyramids?
I think various radical Muslim groups have threatened over the years to destroy the pyramids. If I’m not not mistaken during the first Islamic invasion several were actually attacked. However, the pyramids are not as easy to destroy as one would think. Also the Egyptian government and the people would probably fight to the death to prevent it. They may be Muslims, but were Egyptians first!
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I invented a new saying to go with the old saw "Those who do not remember history, are condemned to repeat it".
"Those who are ignorant of history, should STFU about it."
I'm talking about the racists and historical revisionists on the Memphis council, and their ilk.
I'm a Union boy, born and bred, but I am steeped in the history of the Civil War. I visited 20 or more Civil War battlefields in my youth (my father dragged us children along). I learned respect for the achievements of the men on BOTH sides of the face-off. Many of the Confederates were immediate descendants of the Founding Fathers, and were very brave men, forthright in their convictions.
I spit on the yellow-bellied scum revisionists who have scuttled out from their verminous hiding places to dishonor the memory of brave men.
If they want a fight, they just might get one. For after all - once they win this one, they'll be coming for the rest of us, piecemeal.
Remember the words of Niemöller...
To coin a phrase, "those who are ignorant of history, will STFU about it".
I'm not interested in the puerile "thoughts" of those who don't even know who their enslavers were: the Democrat Party. This is the same party which enslaves them now, on the Big City Plantations.
I tire of pretending that the thought of such fools is worthy of anyone's attention.
You know what they need to do - I referred to it above.
Again, that is why, in our present social problems, we cannot look at the burial of a Confederate General in a city park in the same way as his contemporaries viewed him.
Certainly we can. A deconstructionist, on the other hand, would seek such a path to achieve his/her destructive goals.
REJECTED!
Your argument's premise, that is...
Well said! That is inside my own heart.
Let me put this politely as I can. You are complying with the wishes of leftists whose only desire is complete domination. You are being used.
Thank you for being polite! It is my desire to be the same.
General Forrest died in 1827, but thirty years later in 1905, he and his wife’s bodies were dug up and reburied in the park in Memphis due to a change in “political climate.” So I see it as quite fitting that now, a little more than hundred years later, that they will be removed yet again to a private location due to another change in “political climate.”
I think it is safe to say it was “rightists” who reinterred the General; now you say it is “leftists” who are re -reinterring him.
Fine. The score is even. Let’s keep it that way for the sake of liberty.
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