07-13-2015, 08:26 PM
This is what our community is thinking about all this going on with the flags, monuments and Nation Bedford Forrest Day.
http://www.scrippsmedia.com/newschannel5...39131.html
CHAPEL HILL, Tenn. – A Democratic state representative says he's created a bill to end Nathan Bedford Forrest Day in Tennessee.
A law required Governor Bill Haslam to recognize the Confederate General and Ku Klux Klan leader Monday even after Haslam called for a bust of Forrest to be removed from the State Capitol.
But in Forrest's childhood hometown of Chapel Hill, lawmakers say people shouldn't expect anything related to Forrest to change.
Forrest's influence can be seen in the town on Nathan and Forrest streets, a marker at the home where he was born, a memorial just a few feet from Chapel Hill's town hall and even the high school that is named after him.
Complete article at link above...
http://www.scrippsmedia.com/newschannel5...39131.html
CHAPEL HILL, Tenn. – A Democratic state representative says he's created a bill to end Nathan Bedford Forrest Day in Tennessee.
A law required Governor Bill Haslam to recognize the Confederate General and Ku Klux Klan leader Monday even after Haslam called for a bust of Forrest to be removed from the State Capitol.
But in Forrest's childhood hometown of Chapel Hill, lawmakers say people shouldn't expect anything related to Forrest to change.
Forrest's influence can be seen in the town on Nathan and Forrest streets, a marker at the home where he was born, a memorial just a few feet from Chapel Hill's town hall and even the high school that is named after him.
Complete article at link above...