For most of Fluvanna’s Confederate dead, their only memorial is in Palmyra. The monument has never hurt anyone. The park can only be Confederate Park, or Confederate Memorial Park. As my Fluvanna-born mother used to say, the park is “not big enough to cuss a cat in.” Fluvanna has Pleasant Grove in which to build a new park to other soldiers. The campaign to rid all Confederate symbols dates back to the NAACP resolution adopted in 1991 (Confederate Flag Resolution VII). Our governor has also jumped on the bandwagon, denying the Sons of Confederate veterans the same rights afforded to any other civic group.
It is not a flag on the license plate, it is the official SCV emblem. Let’s see if he now has the backbone to eliminate the “offensive” Redskin plate! We know what is behind these moves. Instead, why not promote tourism and place Civil War trail markers there telling Fluvanna’s war story?