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GRAHAM — The Colonel Charles F. Fisher Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans will host an observance of Confederate Memorial Day on Court Square on Saturday. The event will begin at 9 a.m. by parading from the County Courthouse to lay a wreath at the memorial wall at the Criminal Courts Building. This...
The Scotch Plains Public Library will continue its Civil War Sesquicentennial series on Monday, May 21 at 7 p.m., with a talk by Steven D. Glazer. This free program is based on his most recent book, “Discover Your Community’s Civil War Heritage,” an official research manual published by the N.J. Civil War Sesquicentennial Committee....
About 30 people came out to Woodward Cemetary to honor a fallen soldier from 150 years ago. It’s a part of a Confederate Memorial day. Folks dressed up in confederate uniforms and listened to a reading about James T. Woodward, who is buried at the cemetary. The group’s commander, Steve Scroggins, says it’s important...
Did you know that the first Memorial Dayin America was held in the South in honor of both the soldiers of Union Blue and Confederate Gray? Some folks call the War Between the States, 1861-1865, a lost cause but stories of the heroic- brave men and women who stood for Southern Independence...
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...
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...
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...
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...
