Confederate graves, featuring the Southern Cross of Honor, at Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston, S.C. (HeyItsWilliam/Flickr)
You Won't Believe What the Government Spends on Confederate Graves -- The Atlantic
Taxpayers now pay more to maintain rebel graves and monuments than those honoring Union soldiers.
On June 19, an array of top government officials gathered for the unveiling of a statue of Frederick Douglass, the 19th-century African-American man born a slave who rose to be a vice-presidential candidate. That politicians and the federal government continue to memorialize black leaders and abolitionists of that era surprises no one, but few are aware of the other side of that coin: how much Washington pays to memorialize the Confederate dead.
The most visible commemoration comes every Memorial Day when the president places a wreath at the Confederate Monument in Arlington National Cemetery, the vast memorial built on an estate confiscated from Robert E. Lee. Lower down in public awareness is the fact that 10 military bases -including prominent installations like Fort Lee and Fort Bragg -- are named after Confederate leaders, a fact that Jamie Malanowski highlighted and criticized in a Memorial Day New York Times op-ed that stirred a heated debate.
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My Comment: I guess for some the aftermath of the U.S. civil war is still going on.
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