He drove a truck and quickly befriended what Peters calls her friend group of redneck kids. A group of 20 vehicles, mostly pickup trucks, did a lap around Rhoads neighborhood with Peters and a friend on horses at the front. Peters mom, Hayley Lewis, draws a distinction between the Confederate flag, or stars and bars, […]
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It was fortunate that a collector of historical munitions noted that a recently bought cannonball contained a still intact fuse, potentially allowing it to detonate, which led the woman to notify a manager at the auction site of purchase, who in turn notified the police. A bomb squad unit evacuated the area and safely removed
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Anti-Trump activists got a rude surprise in Danville, Virginia. When they vandalized a sign supporting Donald Trump, they tore off the sign – only to find the Confederate flag underneath it. A local business owner had wanted to make a statement about both his support for Trump and the Confederate flag, so when one was
A township resident of Bloomberg wa a victim of vehicular vandalism when two of his tires were slashed at 8pm outside of a diner on Broad Street. According to him, it is because of the pro Donald Trump stickers and paraphernalia his truck is covered in. He posted on social media that his truck has
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Madison county honors their fallen soldiers of the American civil war with a tall monument in Four Freedoms Park. At the base are the names of 196 soldiers, 100 of which died from direct combat actions. Almost four percent of the Madison population was taken during the civil war from 1861-1865 and in 1860 over
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On November 9, 2016, the oldest museum, the Confederate museum, in New Orleans has suffered minor damage after a tire was placed in front of its entrance and then set on fire. The incident was caught on video, showing two people in baseball caps and hooded sweatshirts committing the crime. Authorities are unsure if this
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Mayor Ronnie Joyner has decided to vote in acceptance for the confederate monument in Louisville, Kentucky. The monument currently sits on the Louisville University campus. There have been some calls against it, but since more people are for it, it will be deconstructed and then reconstructed near historic civil war sites downtown in Brandenburg to
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Ready, aim and dive! The British had an invested interest in the success of Confederate soldiers winning the American civil war. They sent load and loads of weaponry to add in this endeavor. Fortunately, for many surviving Americans of that war a lot of those weapons of destruction ended up at the bottom of the
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Maurice Bessinger was a restaurant owner in the the deep south of America who famously defended the ownership of slaves in the country. He would fly Confederate battle flags near all of his restaurants and made his establishments unwelcoming to black Americans even after desegregation. He sold small plots of land near his establishments so
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A very unique historical relic was recently unveiled. On Thursday November 10th, members of the Louisiana Area Historical Museum displayed a completely preserved Civil War flag at the American legion post 370. The flag was originally owned by Sam Minor prior to acquisition by the Louisiana Area Historical Museum. The flag unveiling was preceded by
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