We’re from Lincoln County, TN. Husband was born there. We both have great-great grandfathers who were Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. (My great-great grandfather fought at Shiloh; I grew up with my parents taking me to Shiloh when I was a child over 60 yrs. ago. Back then, the “Bloody Pond” was a lot darker with bloodstain than it is now. Time & weather have decreased the stain.) I cannot fathom the hatred that moves people to want to dig up a dead man and gloat over him. Macabre.
You can sort of compare this to other iconoclastic movements in history: mass destruction of pagan buildings art and documents by Christian radicals; Ahkenaton’s destruction of non Atenist buildings and art work; iconoclasm in the Byzantine Empire; Henry VIII’s destruction of manuscripts, buildings and artwork; similar actions by the Puritans under Cromwell; the destruction of artworks by the communists in the Commune Revolt in Paris; desecration of Christian graves and places of worship by the atheist French revolutionaries.
There is a mindless, vile tendency in some people to revel in these kinds of acts of destruction, and other individuals who elect to employ them to foster a political agenda.
I am a northerner, but as soon as I saw that idiot Nikki Haley cave to these fanatics in South Carolina, I knew it was just the start. Just recently a DemocRat group in Connecticut dropped Jefferson and Jackson from the name of one their historic events in response to pressure from Black Racists.
We have to stand up to these politically correct idiots or they will totally wreck our heritage and sense of identity as a nation and people, further Balkanizing America and setting us up for collapse which is their real goal.