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struggle4progress

(118,290 posts) Wed Aug 16, 2017, 01:17 PM Aug 2017

Hollywood Forever Cemetery removes Confederate monument

Alene Tchekmedyian

The Hollywood Forever Cemetery removed a monument commemorating Confederate veterans early Wednesday ...

Since 1925, the 6-foot monument has stood in the Confederate section of the cemetery, where more than 30 Confederate veterans, along with their families, are buried. The monument will be taken to a storage site within the next 24 hours, cemetery officials said, but the grave markers will remain ...

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-hollywood-forever-monument-20170815-story.html

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery removes Confederate monument (Original Post) struggle4progress Aug 2017 OP
I, personally, have no problem with CSA monuments which sinkingfeeling Aug 2017 #1
A cemetery is the proper place for a memorial. denbot Aug 2017 #2
Cemetaries and battlefields I can understand . . . hatrack Aug 2017 #3

sinkingfeeling

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1. I, personally, have no problem with CSA monuments which
Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 02:03 PM
Aug 2017

are erected in Confederate cemeteries. I leave the dead in peace.

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2. A cemetery is the proper place for a memorial.
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Wed Aug 16, 2017, 02:14 PM
Aug 2017

Not every one killed in Vietnam went willingly, yet died on the battle field. So too, I imagine goes many confederate K.I.A.

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