Rebel monument is appropriately irrelevant (TX)
By Enterprise editorial staff
Published 4:00 am, Sunday, September 18, 2016
The first flag at a memorial to the Confederacy was raised quietly last Sunday ...
Organizers .. raised the flag used by the Army of the Trans-Mississippi. And .. not one person in a thousand knows what the diagonal red cross with 13 white stars on a blue field represents ...
.. the memorial .. concrete is .. cracking and peeling the very week it opens. There are no parking spaces. It is located on, ironically, Martin Luther King Drive ...
.. the .. low-bidder nature .. is a monument to the real promise of America, where a black man can become president and a woman might succeed him ...
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