Madison City Council overturns Confederate monument decision, supports removal

Good God.

This is what we’ve come to.  Tearing down grave markers, because history is political.

There’s nothing to say here that isn’t obvious and well-established.  I have no point to make; the points make themselves.  I’m just…sad.  I’d almost inured myself to the destruction of monuments and memorials; I’d almost gotten used to the idea that, yes, this is the new reality, we will smash the icons of the past in order to show our fealty to the political furor of the present; but seeing it done to a tombstone, with actual men’s bodies lying under it, is apparently enough to get through whatever weary armor I’ve built up.

I sincerely hope that future generations never decide that you, or the people you care about, are unworthy of memory and dignity in death.

“You don’t have discussion in a cemetery. You have reflection, and you have memories, and this (monument) brings up memories that are not so pleasant in our history,” said Council Vice President Sheri Carter.

Yeah.  Memories that are “not so pleasant” in a lichyard.  Imagine that.