Attention, Alabamians!
Monday, April 24 is Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama.
Only two states - Alabama and Mississippi - continue to mark the day with an official state holidays. Georgia ended its commemoration of Confederate Memorial Day in 2015, replacing it with a day dubbed "State Holiday." Other states, including Florida and South Carolina, mark the day at different times, but not as a state holiday.
The day traces its roots back to 1866 when the Ladies Memorial Association of Columbus, Georgia passed a resolution to set aside a day to honor Confederate soldiers who lost their lives in the Civil War.
How shall I celebrate? I need to do something as a native Alabamian After all, old times here are not forgotten. Put Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" on my iPod? Oh shucks. I don't own an iPod. Go down to Clanton and pick some strawberries? Wave the Confederate flag? Only problem is that I don't have one. Only Alabama and Mississippi. Go figure.
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