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.”
They also removed another one in San Diego..America is being destroyed one statue at a time..no different than what ISIS has been doing in Iraq and Syria
Speaks volumes. They must know how people really feel.
We are being Tali-banned................
Dammit. I don’t think there’s a Confederate monument or statute within 500 miles of me or I’d be lying in wait.
The Nazis are back and renewing their plundering.
The Hive is alive!
Group-think at it’s finest!
Destruction of our history ping list.
PM me or let me know if you want on or off of this list. I am thinking it might be a busy ping list.
This isn’t going to end well, not at all.
Sound familiar?
“Tracking a trail of historical obliteration: ISIS trumpets destruction of Nimrud
ISIS continues to bulldoze its way through the cultural heritage of Iraq and Syria, releasing a new propaganda video showing its fighters destroying Iraq’s ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in March.
Nimrud lies close to ISIS’ main stronghold in Iraq, the northern city of Mosul.
The video, which ISIS posted Saturday, shows militants attacking the more than 3,000-year-old archaeological site with sledgehammers and power tools before finally using explosives to blow it up.”
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/09/world/iraq-isis-heritage/index.html
Only cowards do things like this in the middle of the night.
Notice the same people screaming about how they hate Nazi’s are behaving JUST LIKE THEM..CNN, the same network that pretends to hate Nazi’s TWICE talked about how evil Israel was when they were fighting Gaza..remember when all the rockets were being thrown at Israel and Israel defended themselves..CNN called them murderers, saying they were killing innocent women and children..did that twice, in 2006 as well..these are people who would be happy with Israel being wiped off the map yet they cry about Nazi’s
Remember all those videos of ISIS breaking statues and monuments in Syria and people couldn’t believe what they were seeing..well welcome to the new Syria because its happening here..with the FULL support of the American press
Do these people ever ponder why the folks that put up these monuments a hundred years ago did not think it was “hate” or racist?
Yeah, but now it’s become a competition as to who hates Nazis the most.
Godwin's law is never applied quicker than an Internet discussion about Israel.
They got a Soros paid thug to piss as a left winger. Said thug got idiots to follow him. Riots broke out. Now they can take down all the statues. And people are afraid to fight it. The people in the media are to blame. And as long as they’re allowed to act America will lose.
I predict Trump will be removed from office over this.
Yep, to be replaced with their fake history.
And not a damn thing will be done about it.
[Do these people ever ponder why the folks that put up these monuments a hundred years ago did not think it was “hate” or racist?]
Don’t you know? EVERYONE that lived a hundred years ago was racist to the left.
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