The women who erected Confederate statues are silent
By Peter Galuszka
October 13
.. the mausoleum-like United Daughters of the Confederacy Memorial Building and Great Hall .. is open only to members and their guests. It is the headquarters of an all-female organization that since the 1890s organized the erection of more than 700 memorials across the country — far more than any other group — to recall the glory of the Confederate fighting man ...
Virginia is ground zero in the battle over memorials because it has so many ...
So far, the UDC has kept largely silent about the issue ...
Membership in the group is open to women at least 16 years old who are “lineal or collateral blood descendants” of people who served in the military or civil services of the Confederacy or “gave material aid to the cause.” How seriously the group takes this isn’t clear.
... In the late 1940s, before I was born, my father was stationed at a Navy facility near Memphis. My mother, a liberal from Upstate New York, was bored. One outlet was a local bridge club, but to play you had to be in the UDC. So, the ladies made her an “honorary” member. I can find no documentary evidence of this ...
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I went to their website and it's appalling. They founded a children's auxiliary with these purposes:
To honor and perpetuate the memory and deeds of high principles of the men and women of the Confederacy.
To observe properly all Confederate Memorial Days.
To strengthen the ties of friendship among members of the Organization.
To serve society through civic affairs and to perpetuate National patriotism as our ancestors once defended their beliefs
You can see the confederate flag in the background of their picture.
