It is amazing to me, never having lived in the South, how the Confederacy has become so honored that Jews like my sister can live there while a Black girl can be given an honor in the name of a civil war hero.
I hope nothing of this sort ever happens in Germany! I have spent considerable time in the former land of the Third Reich and a story like this is simply impossible to imagine. In fact, the sense of Jewish community in Berlin, now a larger Jewish city than before the Hitler era, is so strong because the goyem and the Jews share a revulsion for this part of Germany’s history.
150 years after it sank a Union blockade ship, a team of conservators from Clemson University in North Charleston have entered the hull of the now raised Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley.
Eleven years ago today, these heroes of the Confederacy were honored when 6,000 reenactors dressed in Civil War uniforms and color guards from all five branches of the U.S. armed forces—wearing modern uniforms— walked in a procession with the crew’s coffins four miles from Charleston’s waterfront Battery to Magnolia Cemetery .
The U.S. Navy submarine force has a long history already with Confederate heroes. Four of her ships, two submarines and two submarine tenders bore their names: USS Robert E. Lee (SSBN-601); USS Stonewall Jackson (SSBN – 634); USS Hunley (AS-31); and USS Dixon (AS-37).
The Hunley is the inspiration of the Sons of Confederate Veterans H. L. Hunley JROTC Award, presented to cadets on the basis of strong corps values, honor, courage and commitment to their unit during the school year.[
Visitors can obtain tickets for guided tours of the conservation laboratory that houses the Hunley at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center on weekends. The actual Hunley is preserved and on display in a tank of water, while a replica can be entered by the public. The Center includes artifacts found inside Hunley, exhibits about the submarine and a video. Friends of the Hunley, a group dedicated to conserving and eventually exhibiting the vessel, .
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