Posted on 08/22/2017 9:19:35 AM PDT by luke1825
Gov. Charlie Baker should do more than just remove the boarded-up Confederate memorial on Georges Island inBoston Harbor.It is the only Confederate memorial in thestate, placed there in 1965. It memorializes 13 Confederate soldiers who died under horrible conditions at nearby Fort Warren, which was a prisoner-of-war camp during the Civil War. It housed 1,000 Confederate prisoners.
And while hardly anyone knew it was even there, the Baker administration, searching for Confederates, found it. It was no easy t
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Figured this.
I wonder how many Left-leaning mayors asked staffers to "go find me something, anything related to the Confederacy," this week, looking to pander.
money quote right there.
Yale has put out-of-sight, a stone carving of Puritans pointing a blunderbuss at natives. It had previously been merely covered.
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