[Magdalen] Ruckus at U. Virginia

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

This poem comes to mind (wonder how many others are familiar with it):

http://www.civilwarhome.com/blueandgray.html

It begins:










*By the flow of the inland river,    Whence the fleets of iron have
fled,Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver,    Asleep are the ranks of
the dead:        Under the sod and the dew,            Waiting the
judgment-day;        Under the one, the Blue,            Under the other,
the GrayAnd it ends:*






*No more shall the war cry sever,    Or the winding rivers be red;They
banish our anger forever    When they laurel the graves of our dead!
Under the sod and the dew,            Waiting the judgment-day,        Love
and tears for the Blue,            Tears and love for the Gray.*






James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> There have been a spate of demonstrations about the removal
> of Confederate War monuments in the USA, and this includes
> that at the U. Virginia campus secondary to the removal of a
> statue of Robert E. Lee, the supreme commander of the
> Confederate Armies.  I gather that dozens, if not hundreds of  these
> memorials are scattered across the USA South, and dating from
> the immediate post Civil War period.  They feature either a
> generic southern soldier, or one or more of the commanders of  the
> Confederate Army.
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> Whatever opinions may be,  I wonder, however, how these
> memorials came to be in the first place.  This is especially  true
> of the depiction of the commanders such as Lee and Jackson.
> I can still remember vividly flying out of Atlanta Hatfield Airport
> right over the Stone Mountain, GA with its three confederate
> figures (Lee, Jackson, and Davis, the latter President of the
> Confederate States.  It was a kind of surprize.
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> It would seem to have been sensible to discourage these  memorials
> from the outset and thus spare the country the pain of the move
> to remove them.  Oddly, I think Spain may have chosen the
> better route by memorializing the dead of both sides of the Spanish
> Civil War in the same monuments:
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> _https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valle_de_los_Ca%C3%ADdos_
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valle_de_los_Caídos)
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> DS.
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