Posted on 08/16/2017 12:45:01 PM PDT by Mark
Confederate monument removed from Hollywood Forever Cemetery overnight
By Brenda Gazzar, Los Angeles Daily News
Posted: 08/16/17, 10:07 AM PDT
The spot where a Confederate monument once stood is seen Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017, at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood. The statue was removed earlier in the morning.
A monument honoring Confederate veterans has been removed from Hollywood Forever cemetery days after deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, prompted in part by clashes over the planned removal of a statue there of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
The Long Beach chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which owns the local monument to Confederate soldiers, agreed to have the iconic cemetery take it to an undisclosed location, said Theodore Hovey, family service counselor at Hollywood Forever.
“It was a mutual agreement; the situation had become untenable,” Hovey explained. The cemetery’s view “was that we could not necessarily guarantee a harmonious and peaceful atmosphere for our families, and our visitors and employees with its continued presence here — and the Daughters of the Confederacy were very concerned about the monument’s safety.”
The monument was “slightly vandalized” on Tuesday with the word “No” written on it by a magic marker, which was likely easily removed, Hovey said.
“I think that was one of the turning points for the owner of the property realizing it was very vulnerable,” he said. The cemetery has received “probably hundreds” of calls and e-mails both in support and in opposition of removing the monument — but the majority of people have urged its removal, he said.
There were two online petitions calling for the removal, including one that gained more than 1,700 signatures as of Wednesday morning. There was also an online petition calling for the monument to remain, Hovey said.
The monument was erected in 1925 for the 35 to 40 Confederate soldiers buried at the cemetery, he said. It was erected during a period of active efforts on the part of groups like United Daughters of the Confederacy to put up similar monuments around the country. But this one is different than many others, he noted.
“This is in a cemetery amid graves of people buried,” Hovey said. “It wasn’t a monument in a public space, in a park or a square somewhere. It was a very different situation and it required a lot more finesse in having its removal.”
Please add me to the list.
But race relations will be GREATLY IMPROVED with the elimination of these monuments. /s
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I have a better idea...remove subversives from the country overnight.
No, it’s not......
I predict Trump will be removed from office over this.
there’s no mechanism to remove a president because the media doesn’t like what he says...but his agenda could be irreparably stymied, because I think the Pubs are going to bail on him...
Understandable that they rescued their own statue from vandalism. Sad that it has become necessary. These statues may need to be kept in private hands for a time.
Of course not: People who lived 100 years ago were idiots. People today are enlightened and wise (well, some of them; not the cretins who post on FR).
Oprah Winfrey once said that if people like you insist on living in the past, you need to just die.
This crowd is not interested in debate. They want you to kowtow to them or else.
“Hollywood Forever Cemetery”
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I guess “forever” doesn’t really mean “forever” after all.
Done!
It is possible that this whole remove the monuments movement will backfire on them.
But I will die. Eventually. Just like the generations before me. Those that would not or did not approve of many things I’ve done but find normal. This generation in the street doesn’t want to wait. They want to beat us into submission. Some want to outright kill us.
I used to live literally 1/2 block from the entrance to that place. It became a nightmare in the summer time with all their evening concerts and events.... traffic, drunks and druggies all over the place every night. Glad I got out of there!
Who was this bothering?
Just wait. Before long, it will be a statue of any white male which the left objects to.
Who knew?
Don’t think I’d ever seen that before.
the inscription reads: “ “In memory of the soldiers of the Confederate States Army who have died or may die on the Pacific Coast.”... “Lord God of hosts, be with us yet, lest we forget — lest we forget.”
First they came for the church bells, then the crosses, now graveyard memorials, in spite of graveyards being specifically for the preservation of history.
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