[TexConfederate1861]

I agree there. I am a re-enactor with the 1st Texas Inf.,
and that is true, I also "galvanize" (switch sides, a hobby term) but you miss my meaning. This funeral is to honor the CONFEDERATE sailors of the CSS Hunley, and to have re-enactors in Blue is an insult. This is not a living history event.

[wimpycat]

Be that as it may, neither you nor I live in South Carolina, and I think we may agree in principle that it's ultimately up to South Carolinians how to bury these sailors.

I'd be curious as to how they would go about a conducting a state funeral for Confederate sailors. After all, wouldn't the U.S. military necessarily be involved? They are in other state funerals. And you know when you take government money (as in a state funeral) you have to take their rules, too.

BTW, I have a cousin who is a Confederate re-enactor. He's been an extra in a couple of documentaries. He was born for that sort of thing.