So here we are at the Confederate War Memorial in Greenwood, Mississippi. If you look on that wall, you might find the name of my childrens' great grandfather. He was a veteran of World War One. If you read the inscription above the names (click on the picture for a larger version), you might come to understand why the names of WWI veterens are inscribed on the Confederate War Memorial. I was a little confused by phrases such as "the land they loved." Did these boys love France? And did we fight in WWI for four years? And what is this about 1898? Was that the Spanish-American war? I think it is nice that the people who built this memorial decided to honor the other veterans of the town at the time they constructed it, which would have been in the twenties I suppose, since my father-in-law remembers seeing this as a boy.
So here we are at the Confederate War Memorial in Greenwood, Mississippi. If you look on that wall, you might find the name of my childrens' great grandfather. He was a veteran of World War One. If you read the inscription above the names (click on the picture for a larger version), you might come to understand why the names of WWI veterens are inscribed on the Confederate War Memorial. I was a little confused by phrases such as "the land they loved." Did these boys love France? And did we fight in WWI for four years? And what is this about 1898? Was that the Spanish-American war? I think it is nice that the people who built this memorial decided to honor the other veterans of the town at the time they constructed it, which would have been in the twenties I suppose, since my father-in-law remembers seeing this as a boy.
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