Grave marker for Confederate troops toppled in Silver Spring

WTOP ^ | 6/18/20 | Nick Iannelli

[the OlLine Rebel]

Statues and monuments related to the Confederacy have been vandalized and toppled in recent days across the country, and now a memorial has been destroyed in a church cemetery in Silver Spring, Maryland.

The memorial marked the graves of 17 Confederate soldiers, many unidentified. It was spray painted earlier in the week and then toppled over Wednesday night by vandals at Grace Episcopal Church.

[the OlLine Rebel]

This came up via my FaceBook notifications for my group, Coalition to Protect Maryland Burial Sites mentioned here.

Luckily, the president is drawing up a press release to condemn this.

Worst of all, was seeing the disgusting self-righteous ignorant defense of this on FB, especially by one individual. Perhaps they should focus on him.

Barforama on the (typical) pandering virtue-signalling at the end by the church.

[ataDude]

Karma is a real bitch.

[ataDude]

Karma is a real bitch... for the folks who damaged the grave marker.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Since this article is the only 1 I can post that has any pix, but not very thorough, I’d link you to FB:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/308410799452/?multi_permalinks=10159270942199453&comment_id=10159272163799453&notif_id=1592521122761081&notif_t=feedback_reaction_generic&ref=notif

[Lurkinanloomin]

Taliban like behavior.

[Vermont Lt]

Monuments are not graves. Disrupting a grave is a big problem.

[maxwellsmart_agent]

This is just nasty! The creeps who did this are subhuman. They have no conscience!

[cyclotic]

Disrupting a monument is also a big thing. I drove past our city war memorial today and gave it a good hard look for any evidence of vandalism.

I’m a bit surprised there was none.

[blueplum]

I’ve seen several posts in the net where an instigator will put up a pix of the memorial, even if it’s in a private graveyard, and say something snarky like, ‘it would be a shame if this confederate monument located at xyz was defaced’

one sinister game being played is a takeoff of an ‘easter egg’ hunt, where people would put some small token on the memorial for someone else to find and then publicize the memorial as the location of the ‘easter egg’.

[cnsmom]

I’m with you these vandals will all look back one day and wish they had made other choices. Everyone gets old and dies one day.

[polymuser]

Be too bad if some Confederate memorials were booby-trapped, eh?

[E.Allen]

I wonder where you could buy urishiol (Sp?} it’s the oil in poison ivy. Be a shame if it was sprayed over these monuments.

[hadrian]

Used to drive past this often; it and Fort Stevens on 13th St NW in DC (where Lincoln visited and was shot at!) were always sobering to me to see how close to downtown DC the Confederates got (not counting across the Potomac in Virginia).

[livius]

I’m very worried about this. I am with a group that manages an historic cemetery in Florida where there are Confederate burials. All we have are VA markers bearing the symbol of the Confederate Army (approved by President Eisenhower in 1951 to promote national reconciliation) but there have been attacks in other parts of the country on grave markers.

This is insane.

[redfreedom]

My wife is a Southern girl and reminds me her ancestors never held slaves as the holding of slaves eliminated jobs the poorer folks could have had. Also the war was not a Civil War, but a true War Between The States over states rights.

If we could resurrect the dead of that war, betcha the average private in the Southern Army was fighting for his state’s rights as opposed for some rich guy owning slaves.

[MplsSteve]

In Fayetteville Arkansas is a Confederate Cemetery ran by the SCV.

The dead are mostly from the battle of Pea Ridge and other smaller skirmishes in northwest Arkansas.

As you enter, there is a prominently displayed sign indicating the entire cemetery is under video surveillance and that vandals will be fully prosecuted.

I think we’ll see more of this kind of thing as time goes by - more surveillance cameras, more on-site guards. Heck, the National Cemetery in Springfield Missouri has a Confederate section, mostly dead from the battle of Wilson’s Creek. In the last year or so, some a-hole vandalized a Confederate memorial statue. There’s now 24-hour guards at the cemetery.

[Albion Wilde]

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[KarlInOhio]

From Lincoln's second inaugural address:

With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan ~ to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

Today it appears to have been replaced with "malice toward all and charity for none" and "to do all which may incite an unjust and continuous war among ourselves".

[lightman]

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[hal ogen]

Always remember...maryland is THE Freak state. It is hopeless there. Escape while you are still allowed to do so.