Posted on 08/15/2025 8:01:22 AM PDT by Red Badger
$50,000 for restoration?? Gimme a break.
““At least nine graves were damaged or toppled over.”
There’s your break!
I’m an SAR. Good for my Tennessee brothers.
Colonel, USAF JAGC (Ret)
We need to strongly discourage those people.
If you know what I mean…
Graves are friggen expensive now and with that many it makes sense to me.
The Revolution in Tennessee???
Is this person actually referring to the Civil War being in Tennessee?
Perhaps I’m misinformed, but it simply sounded strange to me that the Revolution was fought in Tennessee.
If the stones were toppled over, why not just stand them up??
Have to find out who it was, actions for justice can happen in the normal process these revolutionaries fought for.
But I agree with the sentiment completely.
Juvenile delinquents.
Because cemeteries are isolated, it’s hard to stop this.
What’s sad is that is was there for so long, and no one bothered it until now.
9 graves for around $5000 each. Stone masons don’t come cheap.
I could speculate the criminals thought it was a Confederate soldier’s grave.
But the fact could be they knew it was someone that fought in the Revolutionary War. A close look will reveal that those who hate Robert E. Lee also hate George Washington.
Anyone that will tear down a Confederate flag will usually burn an American flag.
If experience is any indicator, they were likely not just “toppled”. They were most likely broken off.
Feral kids, late at night, high and/or drunk, doing karate kicks to break them just for fun.
They need to be repaired not just stood back up.
“... a Revolutionary War hero ...”
WTAF !
If he were a CW-1 hero maybe I could understand this because sadly there are many folk still fighting that event. But a hero from the 1770 conflict? It boggles the mind ...
Incidentally, these anarchists didn't have something specifically against Southern Confederates, they just hate memorializing ANYONE from an Age of reason and solid western civilization.
Well stated.
Looks like you need to read up on “The Battle of King’s Mountain,” and other important battles where sons of Tennessee fought in the revolutionary war.
That they were buried in their home state is a testiment to their courage and success in fighting for our Republic. They achieved victory and died of old age in their home state and were honorably buried.
Looks like you need to read up on “The Battle of King’s Mountain,” and other important battles where sons of Tennessee fought in the revolutionary war.
That they were buried in their home state is a testiment to their courage and success in fighting for our Republic. They achieved victory and died of old age in their home state and were honorably buried.
The truly sad part of this post is that so many even on FreeRepublic don’t know which states were involved in the Revolutionary War.
Probably kids
Boro not exactly a hotbed of woke nuts
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