Category: Confederate Rest
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The case against Madison racial reparations
We gave at the office! The history of reparations is mostly open sores and weeping blisters. France wanted reparations — deep and punishing — from the Kaiser’s Germany. Fueled Hitler’s rise to power. President Reagan approved paying $20,000 to Japanese-Americans herded into camps during WW2 but bupkis for their descendants. Nine states have apologized —…
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Judge won’t cancel cancellation of history
After city overturned 113 years of precedent! Let’s close the loop on the canceled memorial cenotaph at the Confederate Rest section of Forest Hill Cemetery. A judge this week denied a lawsuit filed by attorney Todd Hunter seeking its restoration. We broke that story here. Sad to say: It was the right judicial ruling about a wrong-headed…
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Lawsuit seeks return of Confederate Rest monument
Did not glorify the South’s Lost Cause. A Madison attorney is contesting the City of Madison’s removal of the memorial stone at Confederate Rest cemetery on 04-10-2018 (and reaffirmed on 05-11-2018) as a “desecration.” It was one of the city’s first me-too cancel culture victories, taken in the aftermath of the Unite the Right rally…
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Madison council rewrites history
Descendants of Confederate Rest dead would have a strong legal claim to contest removal of grave marker they paid for and was accepted by the City of Madison Forest Hill Cemetery is a National Historical site. Landmark Commission chairman Stuart Levitan acknowledged that “five of the nine Secretary [of U.S. Department of the Interior] standards…
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Get the message? The world is full of victims! They’re everywhere!
Go Brewers! — Oh, is this Brewer bandwagon a fun ride! Guessing productivity suffered Monday in the upper Midwest but, here in Wisconsin, morale got a major boost. Beating the Cubs for the title? Priceless. Jesus Aguilar sent the right kind of message Sunday in Milwaukee: The Cubs should be very afraid. He was correct. We…
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City of Madison poised to trash a grave stone
Where else has a gravestone been uprooted? (outside Jewish cemeteries in Nazi Germany, of course) Forget it, virtue signalers, it’s Madison — where an issue never dies, it only festers. The fate of the grave stone listing the 140 dead Confederate prisoners of war buried in Madison’s Forest Hill cemetery will never be settled, we…