Saw Confederate Memorial Day trending. Remembered when I used to work at a VA Episcopal church (20 yrs ago) & the rector and I would hide all the paintings, memorabilia from RE Lee/Civil War in closets & the basement each year on this date. And then "forget" where we'd put them.
Some random church member would go on a hunt and find them and put all the stuff back.
And, the next year, we'd do the same thing all over again.
And, the next year, we'd do the same thing all over again.
We'd "accidentally" take the memorial flowers delivered to the church to the hospital and shut-ins. Oops! We just didn't realized they were supposed to honor Confederate veterans!
Two decades after our passive-aggressive hiding (we got really good at it!), the church moved all their Confederate memorials from the sanctuary to a "historic" display in a different part of the building. Caused a huge controversy and loss of members. But good for them.
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