Remains of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife are being removed from a Memphis

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

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Crews have started to remove the remains of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife from a Memphis park where a monument of him once stood.

The decision to move their remains was decided last year after the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a non-profit organization of male descendants of Confederate veterans, agreed to drop a pending lawsuit against park owners, according to CNN affiliate WREG.

Forrest, who was a slave trader and early Ku Klux Klan leader, and his wife, Mary Ann, had their graves at Health Sciences Park, where a monument to Forrest used to be.

The work to remove the remains started Tuesday morning and is being paid for by the Sons of the Confederate Veterans, Lee Millar a spokesperson for the group and fifth cousin of Forrest, told CNN.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-remains-of-confederate-general-nathan-bedford-forrest-and-his-wife-are-being-removed-from-a-memphis-park/ar-AAKBMGb

A park is an odd place to put a gravesite.

[Arkansas Granny]

1. I wonder which came first, the graves or the park.

[WarGamer]

6. It was first named Forrest park.

[Yonnie3]

2. "A park is an odd place to put a gravesite"

but convenient for dogs to piss

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. Fuck that guy

[WarGamer]

4. It's the right move... for everyone.

The community gets its park back and the family can bury them in a spot where people don't hate them.

[jimfields33]

8. Anybody with KKK background should be shunned and lose every piece of

Namesake on everything. Disgusting to have celebratory or even memorial of any KkK member.

[Comfortably_Numb]

5. Fuck him. Remember the unarmed black soldiers he slaughtered at Fort Pillow..

[llashram]

14. I do

[dalton99a]

7. Run them through a wood chipper and sell them on eBay as sacred relics

[RockRaven]

9. Throw them into the Tiber...

Although, I suppose, the Potomac or Mississippi will suffice.

[exboyfil]

10. I don't remember seeing the private statue of Forrest when we drove to and from Florida

The statue is located South of Nashville on I-65. Does anyone know if it is still there?

[farmbo]

12. Yep... still there by I-65, but on private property.

Its tacky and amateurish and appears to have been slapped together with paper mache by somebody on a bad acid trip.

[miyazaki]

13. Looks like something from a Scooby Doo cartoon.

[Wounded Bear]

11. He was a war criminal, too...

[roamer65]

15. Can of gas, match and a ditch along the Mississippi.

[Takket]

16. might i suggest the sewage processing plant as a new resting place

[BobTheSubgenius]

17. I read the title, and was anticipating how the sentence was going to finish.

I knew it wasn't this - how could it be? - but what I was hearing in my head was "hat shop."