Community voices disapproval of public funds for veterans memorial featuring Confederates (SC)
Max Hrenda
Thursday, May 5, 2016
... Dozens of people turned out at City Hall for Thursday’s meeting, which concerned the allocation of $15,000 worth of public funds to be donated to American Legion Post 114 for the construction of the memorial, which ... would feature the names of any and all Georgetown County veterans who died in military service. What has proven to be controversial, Scoville said, is that some of those veterans fought against the U.S. under the banner of the Confederacy during the Civil War ...
Councilman Barber ... who is black ... added he was offended the Legion and VFW were proposing to erect a dedication to Confederate soldiers when a monument to the Confederacy already exists at nearby Antipedo Baptist Cemetery ...
“The Confederate States of America fought a war against the U.S. and lost,” Cole said. “... A person that is in the Confederate States of America (military) ... was considered a veteran of the Confederate states, which is a separate entity from the United States of America.”
Alfonsi argued .. that Congress declared Confederate veterans were to be treated as U.S. veterans. Cole contended that the declaration, which was made in Public Law 85-425 was only meant to provide pensions to the families of slain Confederate soldiers ...
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