Confederate Monument (Hollywood Forever Cemetery) Explained

Confederate Monument
Location:	Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

The Confederate Monument was a memorial installed in Los Angeles' Hollywood Forever Cemetery, in the U.S. state of California, honoring all Confederates who had died or would die on the Pacific coast. Erected in 1925 in the Confederate section of the cemetery, it was removed in August 2017.

Description

The quotation on the plaque is from Rudyard Kipling's poem "Recessional" (1897): "Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget!"^[1]

History

The monument was "covered with a tarp and whisked away in the middle of the night after activists called for its removal and vandals spray-painted the word 'No' on its back," on August 15, 2017.^{[2] [3]} This was inspired by the events of the white nationalist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 11–12.^{[4] [5]}

See also

• List of Confederate monuments and memorials
• Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rudyard Kipling - Wikiquote. en.wikiquote.org. en. 2017-09-21.
2. News: Battle Over Confederate Monuments Moves to the Cemeteries . Julie . Bosman . September 21, 2017 . The New York Times .
3. News: Confederate monument at Hollywood Forever Cemetery to be removed . FOX . . August 16, 2017 . en-US . https://web.archive.org/web/20170816061359/http://www.foxla.com/news/local-news/274054184-story . August 16, 2017 . dead .
4. News: Tchekmedyian. Alene. Hollywood Forever Cemetery removes Confederate monument after calls from activists and vandalism threats. August 16, 2017. The Los Angeles Times. August 16, 2017.
5. News: Hollywood Forever Cemetery removes Confederate monument. August 16, 2017. KPCC. August 16, 2017.