Posted on 06/29/2015 3:10:55 PM PDT by bestintxas
Then I guess he'll be switching parties. Southern dignity aside (which this Northerner wholeheartedly supports), the Confederacy itself was a Democrat Party invention.
My great great grandfather was also a Confederate soldier at Shiloh. I’m sick of history being rewritten. My ancestor is peacefully safely buried; but not if this bunch manages to get in totalitarian power.
It’s truly amazing to watch folks jump on the bank-wagon trying to gain the most from exploiting this situation.
Pathetic.
To #14 about “Robert Byrd”.
LUV IT! Dig’em up, move’em out, rawhide!
The mayor of one of the most dangerous cities in the USA has his panties in a wad over a grave and statue.
How about moving Teddy Kennedy’s grave to Murders’ Row at some prison? He was a killer, you know.
Remove all statues of Karl Marx and/or Lenin or Ho Chi Minh, or Castro/Che in the US and ban their appearance on T-shirts, car license plates (Md and Va have a couple), and MTV.
One of my great-grandfathers was also a Confederate cavalryman. His cousin rode with Forrest and was killed in 1862.
“How about “Sheets” Byrds’ grave???
Wherever it is, shouldn’t they exhume him and toss him into the middle of the Atlantic too???”
Hey! We don’t want to pollute the whole Atlantic Ocean with that piece of excrement!
The way the cowardly corporations are going, pretty soon Netflix will ban any showing of Forrest Gump, namesake of the general.
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