Posted on 07/19/2015 12:00:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The Confederate debate is heating up once again, and now vandals have taken to defacing confederate soldier monuments at one metro cemetery.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans is a group which only relatives of those who fought in the war can join.
While they recognize that, today, the Confederate Flag is not popular, the group say it’s no excuse for defacing a memorial honoring soldiers who died.
‘Rest in peace’ is the purpose of cemeteries everywhere. But that peace was disturbed sometime Wednesday night into Thursday morning.
“I want to be forgiving, but it really hurts us to have our monuments defaced,” Larry Logan, Past Commander for the Oklahoma Division of the Sons Confederate Veterans said.
Someone took red paint and covered the memorial.
“This is a very special place to us, the confederate monument is here, it’s been here since 1923, there’s 14 Confederate veterans buried right here by the monument,” Logan says.
Logan says he knows all about the controversy surrounding the flag, but says this is different.
“Defacing that is just like defacing a United States memorial, they are considered soldiers by the United States government,” Logan said.
His own family member fought for the South.
“My great grandfather was an 18-year-old farm boy who went to war, Robert E. Lee was his commanding general, he was at Gettysburg, he got his left thumb shot at Gettysburg,” Logan said.
He says he’s upset that someone would disturb these soldiers’ resting place.
“We didn’t lose who our ancestors were, they’re still our family, we still love them and we haven’t lost who we are, we’re descendants of Confederate soldiers and we’re proud of it,” Logan says.
A police report has been filed.
They plan on putting up cameras near the monument to help curb vandals.
““I want to be forgiving, “
I see the problem here.
I visited the “Will Rogers Memorial” in Claremore OK many years ago.
I noticed there was one display which showed Will’s Father’s Confederated uniform. I think he was a Captain in the Cherokee Mounted Rifles.
How long will it take for some scumbag to deface it?
Well the spell checker did not help me with confederated. Of course it should be Confederate.
We’re way past that now unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 8 years.
Actually thats right where much of America has been. Under a rock, shielding themselves from reality and it’s consequences. Not they emerge when the evil crawls under their rock for them and they are shocked, just shocked, about what to do.
Paging General Stand Watie, CSA. Paging General Stand Watie, CSA. Self aggrandizing ignorant punk alert. Emergency application of the Stick of Truth required!
For those who don’t know who Stand Watie was, there is this thing called the Internet.
Check my post in #8. I believe they rode together.
All I have is a piece of hard rock candy, but
it’s not for eating, it’s just for looking through.
They have been taking over the country for decades. They now feel free and powerful enough to act thuggish. If this is not stopped soon, there will be bloodshed (besides the normal crime the left does).
It won’t be stopped as people will always make excuses to not stop it. They want to ‘feel’ their way to a solution. Then the violence will come. History never lies.
Also discovered that Rogers County, Oklahoma was named after the Confederate Captain, not his Son Will.
ISIS likes to destroy historical artifacts too.
and this is something I wonder about. I fly the Battle Flag at my home. Would I be willing to shoot a thug who was trying to steal it? Probably not. A warning shot, yes. A killing shot, no. Not yet. It has escalated to thuggery, but not to shoot-to-kill for vandalism. Yet.
That was Lone Watie. Try again.
The best one is “The headlines read “Indians Vow to Endeavor to Persevere”. We though a long time about that, and in the end we delcared war on the doubletongues!” Or some such.
Gonna add that to the ol’ tagline!
Any Mosques defaced at the same time?
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