Eddie “The Bombardier” Miller, a co-host of The Political Cesspool Radio Program and former U.S. Army combat medic, offers a report from the grave of Lt. General Nathan Bedford Forrest (C.S.A.) in downtown Memphis, Tennessee after seeing that it had been vandalized on Friday morning with red paint and assorted profanities.
Eddie Miller’s wardrobe was provided by Dixie Republic.
It should be noted that the paint had been sandblasted off the monument, which was under police protection by the time we returned on Saturday to shoot this video. A newspaper report about the incident can be read here:
Vandals left their mark on a controversial statue in the heart of the city’s medical district.
The Nathan Bedford Forrest statue, located off Union Avenue, has been in the middle of a heated battle since the city removed a marker and renamed the park.
A city employee had his hands full cleaning up the statue of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Late Thursday night or early Friday, someone poured bright red paint on the side and sprawled graffiti on it.
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If you’re caught defacing this statue, it’s possible you could be charged with more than just vandalism.
It’s also the burial site of Forrest and his wife, and the penalty for damaging a grave site is stiffer.
Because of our genuine pride of Southern Heritage and our deep love and respect for our ancestors who fought to preserve the American way of life from 1861-1865, The Political Cesspool has earned a reputation for its defense of Southern culture and heroes. We are the only talk radio program that showcases an annual Confederate History Month series each April.
The inscription on Forrest’s tomb reads:
Those hoof beats die not upon fame’s crimson sod,
But will ring through her song and her story;
He fought like a Titan and struck like a god,
And his dust is our ashes of glory.
Facts about Nathan Bedford Forrest:
1) He became a self-made millionaire despite being born into poverty and having no formal education.
2) Invested a great deal of his personal fortune to aid the Confederate cause.
3) Despite being one of the wealthiest men in the South, he enlisted as a solider of the lowest rank in order to further serve his country. As a major planter, Forrest was legally exempted from having to serve, but chose to serve anyway.
4) He had no formal military training, but went on to become the greatest tactician in the history of mobile warfare. He retired as a Lt. General and his maneuvers are still studied today.
5) Personally killed over thirty enemy combatants.
Forrest was the living embodiment of a “man’s man.”
Compare the character and heroism embodied by General Forrest to that which can be found in today’s business and political heavyweights.
He makes me proud to be a Memphian. Proud to be a Southerner.
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