Battle Over Confederate Monuments Moves to the Cemeteries -David Bagley

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/21/us/confederate-monuments-cemeteries.html?emc=edit_th_20170922&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=31483746

Opposition to confederate memorials has been greatly increasing since the Charlottesville incident. 

Public parks, Courthouses, and City Squares are either choosing to take down the statues, or being pressured by people to do so. Many people, however, are starting to focus in on memorials and statues in cemeteries. In Madison, Wisconsin, they have received calls remove a plaque dedicated to a few confederate soldiers, who had died in a nearby union fort, due to imprisonment. Many people argue against its removal with “They were still people who had lives, no matter their beliefs.” and the fact that the cemetery is a public place, but is not as noticed as a park would be, and that the plaque is remembering the dead.

Julie Bosman, the author of this article, attended the University of Wisconsin, making this subject perhaps more personal. Knowing that this article is very recent, and shortly after the Charlottesville incident, the community already is biased against the monument in the cemetery. I feel this article is written for the public to acknowledge that these monuments still represent a human being, and not let rage from Charlottesville blind-sight them from it. The article is relevant as it conveys the message of respecting another person, no matter their beliefs. This can perhaps be related to how, in civil war times, Confederate and Union soldiers would cease their fighting and work together to clear mass amounts of corpses, and, before returning to fighting, having a quick game of checkers and a bottle of whiskey. -David Bagley