Confederate Memorial in Arlington Cemetery
By Marjorie Korn
The Dallas Morning News
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will send a wreath to the Confederate Memorial at Arlington Cemetery on Memorial Day, rebuffing a petition from academics urging him to cease the decades-old tradition.
The petition, organized by Dallas-based historian Edward Sebesta, says signers want to end the [...]

    Arthur Dowdell, the Auburn, Alabama city councilman who desecrated the graves of Confederate veterans has made an apology regarding his actions to the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy.  While this does nothing at all to excuse his actions and is probably disingenuous at best, it does represent [...]