They can't see the Forrest for the trees. Tennessee lawmakers. A Confederate general. (Page 10/12)
cliffw APR 20, 08:07 AM
Lets move everything to a museum.
olejoedad APR 20, 08:48 AM
You guys still beating this dead general?
rinselberg APR 20, 10:48 AM

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Originally posted by olejoedad:
You guys still beating this dead general?


This transcends the historical Nathan Bedford Forrest and the NBF bronzes, statues, state holidays and schools that are named after him.

It's performative.
rinselberg MAY 31, 04:26 PM
Nathan Bedford Forrest III

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U.S. Army Air Corps Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest III was the first U.S. general officer killed in combat against the Nazis during World War II. His plane was shot down over the Baltic Sea while participating in a B-17 bomber raid on Kiel, Germany. A 1928 graduate of West Point, he served as Second Air Force Chief of Staff prior to transfer to the U.S. Eighth Air Force in England. His body was recovered and buried by the Germans, after washing up at a seaplane base, in a small cemetery in Wier, Germany.

He was the great-grandson of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest.

In 1949, Nathan Bedford Forrest III's body was returned from Germany and reburied in Arlington . . .


A photograph from Nathan Bedford Forrest III's life and a photograph of his headstone at Arlington are online at "Find-a-grave."
https://www.findagrave.com/...than-bedford-forrest

And for no particular reason, a blog post that goes on forever. You'd have to schedule an entire day just to read this 'bad boy' from end to end. With more photographs and images from the time of the antebellum South, all the way to modern day, than anyone could shake an equestrian's riding stick at.

Elyce Feliz, Civil War blogger; July 31, 2013.
http://civilwaref.blogspot....rn-july-13-1821.html

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Hudini MAY 31, 07:21 PM
Slow news day?
rinselberg MAY 31, 08:23 PM
I thought it fit into the context of our U.S. Memorial Day. The story of Nathan Bedford Forrest III.

Think of it as your small "reward" for looking at a new forum message created by "yours truly."
randye MAY 31, 10:09 PM

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Originally posted by rinselberg:


Think of it as your small "reward" for looking at a new forum message created by "yours truly."




Like powdered sugar on a fresh, wet turd is a "reward"....
rinselberg JUN 01, 09:45 PM



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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Workers arrived at a Tennessee park Tuesday to begin the process of digging up the remains of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, and moving the former slave trader’s body from its longtime resting place in Memphis to a museum hundreds of miles away.

Crews prepared to remove the graves of Forrest and his wife from Health Sciences Park in Memphis’ busy medical district. The park used to bear the name of the early Ku Klux Klan leader, and feature a statue of the cavalryman on a horse, but the name has been changed and the statue removed in recent years.

Workers must dismantle the statue’s pedestal before they can disinter the Forrests' remains and move them to a Confederate museum in Middle Tennessee. A heavy crane was positioned near the pedestal as workers prepared the site Tuesday morning. The entire process is expected to take weeks.

With the approval of Forrest’s relatives, the Sons of Confederate Veterans is overseeing the move. A judge approved it late last year, ending a long legal battle.


That's not quite the half of it--that's about 40 percent of the complete report.

"Workers begin removing Nathan Bedford Forrest's remains from Tennessee park"
Associated Press; from Fox 17 WZTV Nashville; June 1, 2021.
https://fox17.com/news/loca...-from-tennessee-park
randye JUN 01, 10:20 PM
Demorats crowing about trying to obscure another symbol of their own shameful and indelible insurrection heritage.
Hudini JUN 01, 10:59 PM
The quicker they can hide it the quicker they can blame others. They know no shame.