SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS CONDEMNS ANTIETAM KLAN RALLY
Columbia, TN - The Sons of Confederate Veterans today, again, strongly condemned the "rally" held on the sacred ground of Antietam (Sharpsburg) by the Ku Klux Klan, and the offensive comments by the KKK claiming a connection with Confederate soldiers.
"The modern hate group taking the name of Ku Klux Klan has no claim to Confederate heritage," said Denne Sweeney, Commander-in-Chief of the more than 30,000 member SCV, "and as the actual descendants of Confederate soldiers, and an organization which has been working to bring honor to Confederate veterans for 110 years, the Sons of Confederate Veterans is outraged."
The SCV issued condemnations of the rally weeks ago, and though largely ignored by the mainstream media, the members continue to express extreme dismay and sorrow over having sacred grounds violated by this intolerant "rally".
In addition, for several years now the National Parks Service has undergone a deliberate program of erasing from battlefields information that gives the Southern perspective of the war, or even simply relates the battlefield actions of Southern forces, and the Sons of Confederate Veterans has protested vigorously this unreasonable censure. "Now you have the National Parks Service on the one hand engaging in viewpoint discrimination against Southerners," said Sweeney, "but on the other hand they are promoting the extremism of the Ku Klux Klan and Nationalist Socialist Movement."
Instead of promoting extremism and censuring mainstream Southern historical information, the Sons of Confederate Veterans calls on the NPS renounce its hypocrisy by informing the Ku Klux Klan that sacred battlefields are not "free speech zones", and to return to its mission of telling the full and balanced story of American sacrifice on our battlefields.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans was founded in 1896 to perpetuate and preserve the honor of the Confederate soldier, sailor and marine.
Contact:
Ron Casteel
SCV Chief of Staff
573.353.2106
"The modern hate group taking the name of Ku Klux Klan has no claim to Confederate heritage," said Denne Sweeney, Commander-in-Chief of the more than 30,000 member SCV, "and as the actual descendants of Confederate soldiers, and an organization which has been working to bring honor to Confederate veterans for 110 years, the Sons of Confederate Veterans is outraged."
The SCV issued condemnations of the rally weeks ago, and though largely ignored by the mainstream media, the members continue to express extreme dismay and sorrow over having sacred grounds violated by this intolerant "rally".
In addition, for several years now the National Parks Service has undergone a deliberate program of erasing from battlefields information that gives the Southern perspective of the war, or even simply relates the battlefield actions of Southern forces, and the Sons of Confederate Veterans has protested vigorously this unreasonable censure. "Now you have the National Parks Service on the one hand engaging in viewpoint discrimination against Southerners," said Sweeney, "but on the other hand they are promoting the extremism of the Ku Klux Klan and Nationalist Socialist Movement."
Instead of promoting extremism and censuring mainstream Southern historical information, the Sons of Confederate Veterans calls on the NPS renounce its hypocrisy by informing the Ku Klux Klan that sacred battlefields are not "free speech zones", and to return to its mission of telling the full and balanced story of American sacrifice on our battlefields.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans was founded in 1896 to perpetuate and preserve the honor of the Confederate soldier, sailor and marine.
Contact:
Ron Casteel
SCV Chief of Staff
573.353.2106
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