MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — Two and a half years after Nathan Bedford Forrest’s statue was removed from a Memphis park, the bodies of Forrest and his wife will be removed as well.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans dropped its pending lawsuit, and now the graves of the Confederate soldier and his wife are one step closer to being permanently relocated.
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You gotta be kidding?!?!? Can't even let a guy whos been dead for 250 years lie in peace?
ReplyDeleteWe can't honor the people who lost the war causing the democrats having to give up their saves.
ReplyDelete“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” - George Orwell.
ReplyDelete*SIGH* I remember when 1984 was just a novel, not a training manual.
For his one great failure...
ReplyDeleteMaybe General Forrest would be better to lie in rest somewhere other than that shithole. It is a little known fact that Nashville is not *the worst* place to live in the old south. Memphis and Atlanta are, in fact, worse.
After moving Forrest body elsewhere, perhaps carpetbaggers should be welcomed with tax incentives into Memphis.
They have been so welcomed since shortly after Appomattox. That is one reason real Tennesseans consider Memphis to be actually in East Arkansas.
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As a jonesboro arkansas we consider Memphis a shithole and you can keep it . Hahahah
DeleteWell that should just about solve all the major issues in Memphis! It worked up here in Louisville, KY when the mayor and his minions had a 100+ year old statue memorializing Confederate dead moved in the dark of night from nearby UoL's campus a couple of years back. Place has been the land of milk and honey since then; no crime at all. Works so well that if I even owned any firearms I would have turned them in long ago as there is no need for those evil things around here anymore. regards, Alemaster
ReplyDeleteI detect a slight hint of sarcasm there.
DeleteSubtle...like a L'ville Slugger to the forehead
DeleteAccording to my math 143 years.
ReplyDeleteForrest did more for the black population of Memphis before and after the WBTS than any politician before or since.
ReplyDeleteAs a slave trader, he refused to break up a family and often rescued slaves from oppressive masters.
After the war, he fought for the equal rights of the freed slaves.
Forrest's KKK fought against oppresive laws due to reconstruction and northern carpet baggers. He disbanded his KKK when they began violating the rights and property of the black population. When he passed, almost the entire black population of Memphis turned out for his funeral and grieved and paid their respects to a man that had been as loyal to them as he had his troops.
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