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tenderfoot

(8,982 posts) Mon May 10, 2021, 01:22 PM May 2021

South Carolina will close state and some local government offices to mark Confederate Memorial Day [View all]

South Carolina will close state government offices and some local government offices Monday to mark Confederate Memorial Day.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina will close state government offices Monday to mark Confederate Memorial Day.

Some local government offices will also close in observation of the holiday that is held every year on May 10.

South Carolina is among a handful of states in the South with such an official holiday.

State offices in Alabama and Mississippi closed down for their Confederate Memorial Days late last month.

South Carolina chose May 10 because it is the day when Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson died in 1863 after he was wounded by his own troops and the day Union soldiers captured fleeing Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Georgia in 1865.

https://wpde.com/news/local/south-carolina-to-observe-confederate-memorial-day

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South Carolina will close state and some local government offices to mark Confederate Memorial Day [View all] tenderfoot May 2021 OP

It's not Heritage edhopper May 2021 #1

Loser's Day eShirl May 2021 #2

+1 TheRealNorth May 2021 #8

I thought it was Stupid Losers Day, my bad. rickyhall May 2021 #12

Neidemeyer was also killed by his own troops lame54 May 2021 #3

Knocked off his horse by golf ball. rickyhall May 2021 #13

Celebrating that rich white southern people got other white people to fight for the violent ... Botany May 2021 #4

The "Lost Cause" narrative, which was and still is, being taught as history is a bullshit lie Solly Mack May 2021 #5

These "Confederate Day" People are clebrating this: Botany May 2021 #6

That's exactly what they're celebrating. Solly Mack May 2021 #7

And we are still paying the price of slavery today in the form of the Electoral College which was .. Botany May 2021 #10

They'll use that fear to hold on to the bitter end. Solly Mack May 2021 #17

2 things: Botany May 2021 #18

I am about to the point that, as a Northerner, that we start celebrating our Heritage TheRealNorth May 2021 #9

Ha, I like it! Luciferous May 2021 #20

Excellent idea! And, 04/09 is my birthday! This would be a double sweet holiday! nt Progressive Jones May 2021 #23

That's a holiday I'd like to celebrate! Brother Mythos May 2021 #24

What they really want to commemorate dalton99a May 2021 #11

At earliest opportunity rename it Confederate Victims Memorial Day. nt Cognitive_Resonance May 2021 #14

Every day that state reminds me why I have avoided it mikeysnot May 2021 #15

I have an ancestor from a confederate state. hunter May 2021 #16

I didn't even realize that was a thing until I lived in Mississippi Luciferous May 2021 #19

Trae Crowder's take on this GoneOffShore May 2021 #21

All of this worship of the "Confederacy" on US soil should be a fucking felony. Progressive Jones May 2021 #22