On Friday, April 25, 2008 the Hargrett Library at the University of Georgia will display the original Constitution of the Confederate States of America from 8 AM to 5PM. Read more at: http://www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett/speccoll.html
Saturday April 26, 2008, is Confederate Memorial Day and a legal holiday in Georgia since 1874. Since that time the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Ladies Memorial Association and Sons of Confederate Veterans have remembered the men and women of the Confederate South with annual Memorial Day parades and memorial speeches at the soldier's cemetery.
Confederate Memorial Day events are posted at the following: http://confederateheritagemonth.com
In 1893 a newspaper editor wrote about his sentiment toward Confederate Memorial Day that reflected the feelings of millions of Southern men, women and children that is still felt today.
This editor from Tennessee wrote:
"When we lay roses and lilies above the tombs of our dead brothers, we are not perpetuating strife or giving embers to sectional fires. We are simply honoring valor and giving tributes of gratitude to the record of nobility and suffering. These brothers, lovers, husbands, who lie there, fell in no lost cause. No cause is lost which develops so much of the God-like in man, which calls forth so much that is splendid in sacrifice and love. We will forget some day all the bitterness and hatred, but as long as truth and honor or loved in the world we will not forget the reverence due to those who made the history of a people eternal, and wrote the immortality of a dead cause in blood and tears above the tomb of issues which have passed away. It is for this reason, for the reason of the lives and deaths of our Southern soldiers, that the conquered banner will be remembered when many a victorious standard is forgotten. And when all the swords of the world are made into plow shears, and war shall be a dream of old tradition, the history of the South will be an inspiration to the noble, and the men it produced examples to the men that shall be."
Be a part of your communities salute to the Southern soldier during Confederate Memorial Day and remember our American soldiers during their duty around the world to keep us free.
God bless and Lest We Forget!!
Saturday April 26, 2008, is Confederate Memorial Day and a legal holiday in Georgia since 1874. Since that time the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Ladies Memorial Association and Sons of Confederate Veterans have remembered the men and women of the Confederate South with annual Memorial Day parades and memorial speeches at the soldier's cemetery.
Confederate Memorial Day events are posted at the following: http://confederateheritagemonth.com
In 1893 a newspaper editor wrote about his sentiment toward Confederate Memorial Day that reflected the feelings of millions of Southern men, women and children that is still felt today.
This editor from Tennessee wrote:
"When we lay roses and lilies above the tombs of our dead brothers, we are not perpetuating strife or giving embers to sectional fires. We are simply honoring valor and giving tributes of gratitude to the record of nobility and suffering. These brothers, lovers, husbands, who lie there, fell in no lost cause. No cause is lost which develops so much of the God-like in man, which calls forth so much that is splendid in sacrifice and love. We will forget some day all the bitterness and hatred, but as long as truth and honor or loved in the world we will not forget the reverence due to those who made the history of a people eternal, and wrote the immortality of a dead cause in blood and tears above the tomb of issues which have passed away. It is for this reason, for the reason of the lives and deaths of our Southern soldiers, that the conquered banner will be remembered when many a victorious standard is forgotten. And when all the swords of the world are made into plow shears, and war shall be a dream of old tradition, the history of the South will be an inspiration to the noble, and the men it produced examples to the men that shall be."
Be a part of your communities salute to the Southern soldier during Confederate Memorial Day and remember our American soldiers during their duty around the world to keep us free.
God bless and Lest We Forget!!
