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.
Karma is a real bitch.
Karma is a real bitch... for the folks who damaged the grave marker.
Since this article is the only 1 I can post that has any pix, but not very thorough, I’d link you to FB:
Taliban like behavior.
Monuments are not graves. Disrupting a grave is a big problem.
This is just nasty! The creeps who did this are subhuman. They have no conscience!
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’.
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).
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.
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.
Ping
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".
Ping
Grace Episcopal Church on Georgia Avenue was my maternal grandmother’s church. How sad! By the way, her uncle was killed at Chickamauga fighting in the 31St Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Her husband, my grandfather’s uncle was wounded at Brandy Station fighting in the 12th Virginia Cavalry. I remember those sad markers from my childhood. Lest we forget!
Good grief. Whatever one may think of Confederate memorials, cemeteries should really remain untouched.
I hope the perps get caught and sent away for a long time, but this IS suburban Maryland, so I wouldn’t hold my breath. Maybe they went home the wrong way and wound up in MS-13 territory, hee-hee.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!