Gents, Steve Smith has asked me to coordinate an examination of division funding for heritage projects. Our division has funds available which could fund these projects.In discussions over the past year or two, the consensus seems to be that we should donate to the SCV Museum Fund at Elmwood, and place the rest into California heritage, with grave marking a priority. Some of you have already invested many of your camp dollars into lasting monuments to Confederate Heritage. I’m thinking of the Confederate Monument at Santa Ana/Fairhaven Cemetery, provided by Camp 1770 Orange County , the work done by our Sacramento Camp 1627 in Colma and elsewhere, and the Fresno Camp 1804 effort towards the placing of lasting stone monuments. My camp, 1208 Los Angeles , has ordered a composite Iron Cross, which I should receive today, from Gaffney , South Carolina , where they are manufactured. These are made from the same material as bowling balls, and thus require no painting over the years, and retain their appearance indefinitely, or so says Robert Little, adjutant of the Gaffney SC Camp, whose camp has placed 35 of them. They cost $25 each, plus shipping. I will bring one to the Reunion at Miramar in March. I propose that division fund the purchase of any number of these for our 12 California Camps to place. At our last Division Reunion, in Lebec, Chuck Norred described stone monuments in place in Arizona , and suggested that they should be placed from one end of California to the other. I call on Farrell Cooley, Chuck Norred and Lou Olker in particular to provide guidance, as their camps have already placed stone monuments honoring our Confederate heroes. R/S, Vern Padgett |
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On June 10, 2014 the California State Senate will hold a hearing on AB 2444. It is a bill to ban one of the Confederate Battle Flags from California State
ReplyDeleteProperty (prohibit is sales and display). The flag is the Stars and Bars (used as the National Flag between 1861 through 1863). It passed out of the California Assemble in May, 2014 by a vote of 72 to 1. Let's try to stop AB 2444 from going forward at the Senate hearing on Tuesday. As of now I have
no idea of the room location and the time at the California State Capitol Bldg. Contact you State Senator and tell him to vote no on AB 2444. Also ask
for the room number of the hearing. If you can attend show up at the hearing and speak, please do!