jimnyc
08-16-2017, 01:15 PM
This is disgusting. 30 veterans and their families. :(
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Threats Force Hollywood Cemetery to Remove Confederate Memorial
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The Hollywood Forever Cemetery will remove a memorial to Confederate veterans buried at the site, thanks in part to threats of vandalism, as well as requests from activists, according to a Tuesday report in the Los Angeles Times.
The Times notes that the granite monument marking the burial site was already vandalized on Tuesday:
Since 1925, the 6-foot monument has stood in the Confederate section of the cemetery, where more than 30 Confederate veterans, along with their families, are buried. The monument will be taken to a storage site within the next 24 hours, cemetery officials said, but the grave markers will remain.
This week, Hollywood Forever was fielding as many as 60 calls and emails a day from people requesting the cemetery get rid of the monument, said Tyler Cassity, the cemetery’s president and co-owner. A Change.org petition calling for its removal drew more than 1,300 signatures.
On Tuesday, someone vandalized the granite boulder monument, Cassity said, using a black marker to write “No” across its bronze plaque.
Rest here - http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2017/08/16/threats-force-hollywood-cemetery-remove-confederate-memorial/
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Threats Force Hollywood Cemetery to Remove Confederate Memorial
https://i.imgur.com/eiDmX0G.jpg
The Hollywood Forever Cemetery will remove a memorial to Confederate veterans buried at the site, thanks in part to threats of vandalism, as well as requests from activists, according to a Tuesday report in the Los Angeles Times.
The Times notes that the granite monument marking the burial site was already vandalized on Tuesday:
Since 1925, the 6-foot monument has stood in the Confederate section of the cemetery, where more than 30 Confederate veterans, along with their families, are buried. The monument will be taken to a storage site within the next 24 hours, cemetery officials said, but the grave markers will remain.
This week, Hollywood Forever was fielding as many as 60 calls and emails a day from people requesting the cemetery get rid of the monument, said Tyler Cassity, the cemetery’s president and co-owner. A Change.org petition calling for its removal drew more than 1,300 signatures.
On Tuesday, someone vandalized the granite boulder monument, Cassity said, using a black marker to write “No” across its bronze plaque.
Rest here - http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2017/08/16/threats-force-hollywood-cemetery-remove-confederate-memorial/