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WASHINGTON – What do the “Antifa” radicals have in store for the Independence Day weekend at Gettysburg? The “anti-fascist” organization plans to burn both American and Confederate flags in town and to “find their local Confederate graves” to desecrate. That last stunt might be more difficult than they think. According to the experts at Gettysburg National Military Park, there are no Confederate soldiers buried there.

A row has erupted over a plan to dig up a third of a million bodies from an historic east London cemetery to make way for a new Muslim burial site. Tower Hamlets council in London is considering reopening the Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park in Mile End to answer a long-running campaign for a Muslim graveyard in the area. The park, off Bow Common Lane, was deconsecrated as a Church of England cemetery by Parliament in 1966, after being deemed full with about 350,000 bodies buried there. It is not yet clear what the Council proposes to do with the...

When I read that over 100 pieces of human remains had been uncovered at Ground Zero last month, my thoughts immediately turned to the WTC Families For Proper Burial. This is an organization comprised of people who lost family members in the World Trade Center on 9/11 and it's been pushing city officials to conduct a thorough forensic search of the area ever since. After having heard from founder Diane Horning (she and her husband Kurt lost their son in the WTC), I referenced the group in a follow-up blog post to an SFGate article I'd written titled, "The Cheapening...

<p>FREDERICKSBURG, Va. ? Skirmishes between developers and Civil War buffs seeking to preserve battlefields are common in rapidly growing Northern Virginia, which also was the epicenter of the Civil War.</p> <p>But now a full-fledged national battle has erupted over a proposal to build a new town called Chancellorsville on the land that gave Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee his greatest victory.</p>