Dear Ms. Lunelle,
This weekend passed, alongside the ladies of the Augusta Jane Evans Chapter 2640 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Judah P. Benjamin Camp 2210 Sons of Confederate Veterans, I would join in the annual Plant City and Zephyrhills Christmas parades, Rebel Yell’in the whole way! (See video below). And on Sunday I would return to Gamble Mansion for a day of fun and history with the ladies of the UDC.
As is anyone who dons the uniform of the Southern soldier and is brandishing the Southern Cross, in addition to all the cameras that will be trained on you, there will always be a conversation about the era of the War Between the States, or the events of the day that encompasses it such as the removal of the Confederate Reconciliation Cenotaph at Arlington National Cemetery. This would become the mainstay conversation topic by the thousands who came to watch and participate in these venues.
I would communicate to all that it is important to note that the women of the South (UDC) balked at leaving our Southern soldiers buried on the unholy grounds at Arlington especially under the Charge of Yankees. Nor, even in contemplating building a Memorial of Reconciliation as proposed by Union Veteran and then President William McKinley who proposed the Charge in the hour of Northern White Folk Guilt and the realization that former Confederate soldiers had won the day in the Spanish-American War. At the same time, the Southern women continued to express the unholy crimes committed against the noncombatants (defenseless old men women and children of the South) by the Army of the Potomac. And not to forget its Commander in Chief Lincoln who issued odes to implement the “total war” policy. It was for them a matter for the Almighty God to take up.
And furthermore, they felt, and expressed to McKinley, that they felt at some day in the future their Yankee brethren would find a way to break any supposed act of reconciliation. And by God, on December 18, 2023 their prediction may come to pass.
And as noted by Elizabeth Warren; the originator of the so-called Naming Commission instituted by the United States Congress; the Rule of Law be damned!
And it is important to note that this action will continue to be a stain on the honor of the family of Moses Ezekiel, the Jewish Sculptor, artist and Confederate Veteran who designed and built the Memorial and expressed to be buried alongside it as the Monument as his permanent grave marker.
And to remove the Reconciliation Memorial will cause significant trauma and psychological damage as a religious sacrilege and personal affront to the Ezekiel family.
God bless you!
Your brother,
HK
Chairman Board of Advisors Emeritus Southern Legal Resource Center
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