Historical markers are everywhere in America. Some get history wrong
Historical markers are everywhere in America. Some get history wrong
www.npr.org /2024/04/21/1244899635/civil-war-confederate-statue-markers-sign-history
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Like this bad one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_River_of_Blood_(monument)
10 0 ReplyI bet if he wins in November he'll have his face added to Mt Rushmore too. Jfc. What a waste of skin.
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It did take 100 years to go up, but it was about time someone put this historical marker up in my town. I was there for the ceremony. Unsurprisingly, there were a bunch of cops at the edge of the modest crowd looking intimidating.
Text transcribed here: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=226136
More depressingly, it's in the same park with another historical marker- that one saying it was the former site of an indigenous tribe's village.
6 0 ReplyI love any reporting that calls out Lost Cause bullshit.
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