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'Confederate Month' Controversy

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Channel: WTVC NewsChannel 9 · 2013 · News & Politics

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A controversial proposal is shot down at the Ringgold City Hall.Earlier this week the Sons of the Confederacy asked council members to declare April  Confederate Month,but that term alone can bring out all kinds of emotions to different people.There are constant reminders of Ringgold's history downtown from the confederate cemetery to the confederate hospital.It's important to maintain our history in this area. You can't put your foot down but you're stepping on history.Jessie Torbett believes it's crucial to pass on generation to generation, the good along with the bad.Sons of the Confederacy member, and attorney Marshall Bandy agrees.That's why the group asked Mayor Joe Barger to propose the idea of having April set aside to remember this past.Winners write history but what came out of the civil war was freedom.All city council members voted down the bill Monday.However, unlike city hall, in the streets of Ringgold the vote is not  unanimous.The confederacy was over 150 years ago. There's a difference between hatred and heritage, Glen Fountain says, but I don't think you need to celebrate something you lost.Anthony Berry disagrees,The confederates served their country just like anybody else in that time so they should be honored like the veterans in the U.S.

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