Posts Tagged ‘ Arlington National Cemetery ’

Tulsa attorney, Civil War authority Murray Stewart dies at 80

February 5, 2012
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Tulsa attorney, Civil War authority Murray Stewart dies at 80

“I was the guy you see in the movies who got out of the car, went up to the house and rang the doorbell to – you know,” the former Army captain recalled solemnly in a 1993 Tulsa World story. Over his career, Stewart, a member of the Army’s Judge Advocate General Corp., would...

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Cross Burning in Medfield and The KKK

July 24, 2011
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Cross Burning in Medfield and The KKK

When one hears of the Ku Klux Klan, most envision the terror organization that hid behind white sheets and hoods and attacked, lynched and threatened African-Americans in the South at the time of Reconstruction following the Civil War. But what is less recorded in history is the second Klan which came to life in...

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Of skunks and polecats, Westboro church and the Klan

June 15, 2011
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Of skunks and polecats, Westboro church and the Klan

VIENNA, Va, June 6, 2011 — The idiom “the pot calling the kettle black” is a very old one. When I was a little girl, my dad had a different take on it. When someone criticized another for the same thing the first person was doing, Daddy would say, “That’s like the skunk telling...

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KKK can’t rebrand hatred

June 12, 2011
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KKK can’t rebrand hatred

The Ku Klux Klan can never escape its past. The Ku Klux Klan wants you to know it is a kinder, gentler hate group these days. Membership into its infamous ranks is now open to Catholics, and it recently handed out flags at Arlington National Cemetery while being part of a counterprotest against the...

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Westboro Baptist Church protesters slammed by Ku Klux Klan members at Arlington National Cemetery

June 4, 2011
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Westboro Baptist Church protesters slammed by Ku Klux Klan members at Arlington National Cemetery

CNN Protesters from the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church received a Memorial Day razzing from counter-demonstrators affiliated with a Virginia branch of the Ku Klux Klan. It was hard to support either side in a pair of dueling demonstrations outside Arlington National Cemetery Protesters from the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church received a Memorial Day razzing...

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Military-funeral protesters face off with Klan

June 1, 2011
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Military-funeral protesters face off with Klan

Westboro Baptist Church protest at Arlington National Cemetery countered by group saying it’s affiliated with Ku Klux Klan Members of the controversial church that says the deaths of American soldiers are God’s way of punishing the United States for tolerating gays and lesbians reportedly met some opposition Monday from a controversial group that says...

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