CIC Wilson Forgets to Bring Checkbook
We have a real battle to be fought in Missouri where the Confederate flag has been removed from the cemetery at Higginsville and Fort Davidson State Historic Site.
The Confederate flag has flown for several decades at the 192-acre Higginsville, Mo., site, a former location of a Confederate Veterans' home and cemetery where the remains of almost 700 Confederate veterans and their wives are buried.
At Fort Davidson, a state historic site and park, the Confederates lost nearly 1,000 men in attacking the small earthen fort and its 11 cannons on Sept. 26-27, 1864. Many of those brave soldiers lie buried here.
If the Confederate flag deserves to be flown anywhere it is certainly over the cemeteries where our Confederate ancestors rest and battlefields where Confederate soldiers gave their all.
CIC Wilson rushed to Missouri to lend his support but apparently forget to bring the Heritage Defense Fund checkbook.
The Columbia Daily Tribune of Columbia, Missouri reported on January 19, 2003 that at a Lee-Jackson affair attended by 100 SCV members, less than $300 was raised. Wilson told the crowd that was not enough.
Wilson failed to pledge the support of the SCV Heritage Defense Fund. Or has he earmarked all that money for Kirk Lyons' Southern Legal Resource Center?