The astounding thing about this is that all this veteran was trying to do is share a bit of historical fact. A May 1865 New York Tribune story records recently emancipated slaves honoring Union soldiers who had died in an open air makeshift Charleston prison.
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1402727230367752193
2/ Yale historian @davidwblight1 wrote about this in his 2001 book RACE AND REUNION. Here's the relevant excerpt:
harvardpress.typepad.com/hup_publicity/….
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@davidwblight1 3/ And here's the New York Tribune story in question, from May 1865 
@davidwblight1 @CNNSotu 5/ Difficult not to see symbolism in a veteran trying to share some history about this country and some folks who don't want to hear it turn his mic off.
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