The News Cycle Has Passed Me By...

   Well, the news cycle is a fickle thing..

   First it was Charlottesville and the Confederate Statue thing

   Then it was Harvey and Houston and water

   Next was Irma and Florida and destruction

   Then came Maria and Puerto Rico

   And currently it is NFL and President Trump and The National Anthem

   Each was important, in a way, but dropped out of the headlines once the next big thing came along.

   But here I am this morning thinking about CSA monuments in Brunswick, GA, and I guess that makes me a little behind.

   Maybe it is the fact that this is South Georgia, and we do move a tad slower..

   We were over in Brunswick the other morning and decided that we should look around in the historic district. It had been several weeks since the eruption of the Charlottesville doings, and I had wanted to see if any CSA monuments were standing on our public property. We had visited the old courthouse on our GA courthouse tour, but I could not recall any statuary over there.

   Maybe there could be some in one of the several public squares scattered through Old Town in the historic section of early Brunswick.

 

   Sure enough, the first square we spotted, Hanover Square, was home to this memorial, no specific soldier or general, but a depiction of the common soldier of the CSA.

   On the base of the memorial were these words on the four side panels:

        "CONFEDERATE STATES of AMERICA

1861 to 1865

Lord God of hosts be with us yet, lest we forget. Lest We Forget"

" ... the sacred dust of warriors tried and true, who bore the flag of our nations trust; and fell in the cause, though lost, still just; and died for you and me.

In honor of Confederate soldiers who died to repel unconstitutional invasion and to protect the rights reserved to the people, to perpetuate forever the sovereignty of the states"

"Erected April 26, 1902

A tribute of love from the

Ladies Memorial Association of Brunswick Georgia

to the heroes of the Confederacy

1861-1865

I take it that this monument was not erected with public money, but by an association wanting to honor the war dead of that conflict on the Confederate side. Perhaps this might be allowed to stand undeterred as a monument to an historical event, just as those honoring the war dead of WWI or WWII or Vietnam or Korea, but we shall see.

But perhaps I am not so far behind on news since the Brunswick News top headline on page one of today's paper reads:

"Bill could put Confederate Monuments on the move"

Who knows?