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"Moving the graves and statue to Elmwood Cemetery almost guarantees that they will be vandalized. Elmwood is in a very bad area of town, and these sleazy lawyers and politicians know damn well that there would be virtually no security to maintain the gravesites or the statue.

I think that the SCV should move the Forrest graves and statue to the Shiloh battlefield, and have a huge ceremony proclaiming the final surrender of Memphis to political correctness. The SCV can turn the tables on Memphis by letting the city wallow in it's own financial and spiritual bankruptcy.

Memphis is a town undergoing serious urban decay. The SCV can help accelerate the death of this sorry excuse for a city.

Let Memphis rot, and let Nathan Bedford Forrest reside on far more hallowed ground."

Excellent idea. It would be honorable to move the remains of a great man like NBF out of the third-world hellhole that is present day Memphis. I don't know the status of Elmwood Cemetery, but I would be skeptical of moving his remains to any property the city has any control over. Private property should be found where a perpetual trust would be in charge of maintaining the graves and statue.

Nathan Bedford Forrest SALUTE.

We first moved to Memphis in the early seventies. It was a wonderful place to raise children.

The minute bussing came into being, it all changed, and finally we had to move just to stay alive.