According to the Code of Alabama, Section 1-3-8, Confederate Memorial Day is the fourth Monday in April. This year, that will be April 28. I realize the day will come and go with little fanfare.

The newspapers will have nothing on the front page paying tribute to this day. No flags will fly at half-staff and only a few will take a moment of silence to remember these fallen soldiers. Because of politics, special interest groups and political correctness, we, as a state, will not remember the Alabama soldiers who died during the War Between the States.

That’s very sad. These soldiers paid the ultimate price defending the state of Alabama, and we have no problem forgetting them. T

here is a Confederate memorial at Arlington National Cemetery that reads: “Not for fame or reward, not for place or for rank, not lured by ambition or goaded by necessity, but in simple obedience to duty as they understood it, these men suffered all, sacrificed all, dared all and died.”

It’s sad Alabama Confederate Memorial Day will come and go and the majority of people in our state will never know. These soldiers not only should be remembered, they deserve to be remembered.

Harold Tucker
Dothan