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The United States government intervened earlier this year in a civil war in Yugoslavia. President Clinton and other Western leaders justified the NATO bombing by the crackdowns that Serbian forces had conducted on Kosovar Albanian rebels and civilians. However, prior to the onset of NATO bombing, the actions of the Serbian forces were more moderate [...]
Midland ISD may no longer use references to Confederacy Complaint from parent prompts board to urge a new fight song and name for yearbook MIDLAND — Directors of the Midland Independent School District are considering dropping Confederate references at two schools named for Robert E. Lee in response to a parent's complaint. The board directed [...]
From: boatrokr@hotmail.com To: exedir@scv.org Mr. Denne Sweeney, Commander In Chief Sons of Confederate Veterans Dear Sir: An unnamed SCV member claims that the SCV's lack of presence to oppose the Ku Klux Klan's assembly at Antietam/Sharpsburg "was loudly heard as a protest." On Saturday, June 10, I stood on the hallowed ground of Sharpsburg, Maryland, [...]
By Steve Huffman Salisbury Post Steve Poteat said there was a time when thousands of people would turn out to celebrate Confederate Memorial Day, with schools even closed for the grand event. But that was decades ago, and Saturday's Memorial Service, held at the Old Lutheran Cemetery on North Lee Street, was more indicative of [...]
Commentary by Billy Bearden In front of Mirror Lakes Elementary School located in Villa Rica, between 1:17pm until approximately 2:04pm, two Confederates braved the beautiful warm spring day to honor their ancestors, and show lying politicians that, at least for a few, the flag issue still matters. The event was billed as a Bill Signing [...]
Educators Shed Light on Northern Slavery By FRANK ELTMAN From Associated Press March 17, 2006 2:07 AM EST OYSTER BAY, N.Y. - A group of mostly white seventh and eighth graders sleepily sauntered into their school library, soon to get a surprise awakening about a part of their town's history they never knew existed. "Did [...]
Clarendon Hall students get ‘living history’ lesson from SCV By Cathy Gilbert Clarendon Hall students in the seventh through tenth grades sat in silence and amazement as they got a brief glimpse into what a solider’s life was like during the War Between the States. Sponsored by the Col. Henry Laurens Benbow Camp #859 of [...]
Dorothy A. Seese November 4, 2005 NewsWithViews.com The fact is, I do not write a lot now. Six hundred and some articles after going on the internet in 1999, the world and our nation have only gotten worse, and the majority of people seem to care little, especially in America, about how this nation is [...]
Commentary by Billy Bearden This past Sunday, we witnessed yet another brutal assassination in the war against everything Southern, what we below the Mason-Dixon line traditionally call our cultural Heritage. It was the last ever running of the NASCAR Southern 500. NASCAR, of course, was born in the back woods and hills of Georgia, but [...]
Leon Puissegur The Confederate Battle Flag has been under the gun of groups that tend to lead people in the wrong way to its inception. These groups, which place forth, the ideas that the flag represents hate and slavery cannot produce a single document to support these ridiculous claims. In fact all the documents found [...]
