This seems to be a speciality in Alabama and Georgia, which in the last two days have given me:
War On Terror Memorial Highway
https://www.clantonadvertiser.com/20...war-on-terror/
Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/jdavis.cfm
Lee Highway
https://www.americanroads.us/autotrails/leehighway.html
Some of these namings come from 1910-1930, when there was a concerted effort to rehabilitate the confederacy and KKK, as in Stone Mountain and The Birth Of A Nation. Others reflect an obsession with militarism, with highways dedicated to veterans of every war from 1776 through to Iraq. It's particularly insulting when you see "Korean Memorial Highway" and it's only memorializing Americans, not the far higher number of Koreans who died (see also Vietnam).
Recall also that Memorial Day was Confederate Memorial Day in the south. Seven states still have a Confederate History Month
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conf..._History_Month
The birthdays of Jefferson Davis and Robert E Lee are still a state holiday in Alabama (Lee's is switched to January to replace MLK Day) and Confederate Memorial Day is still held on April 26
https://www.al.com/news/2019/06/jeff...sed-today.html
War On Terror Memorial Highway
https://www.clantonadvertiser.com/20...war-on-terror/
Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/jdavis.cfm
Lee Highway
https://www.americanroads.us/autotrails/leehighway.html
Some of these namings come from 1910-1930, when there was a concerted effort to rehabilitate the confederacy and KKK, as in Stone Mountain and The Birth Of A Nation. Others reflect an obsession with militarism, with highways dedicated to veterans of every war from 1776 through to Iraq. It's particularly insulting when you see "Korean Memorial Highway" and it's only memorializing Americans, not the far higher number of Koreans who died (see also Vietnam).
Recall also that Memorial Day was Confederate Memorial Day in the south. Seven states still have a Confederate History Month
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conf..._History_Month
The birthdays of Jefferson Davis and Robert E Lee are still a state holiday in Alabama (Lee's is switched to January to replace MLK Day) and Confederate Memorial Day is still held on April 26
https://www.al.com/news/2019/06/jeff...sed-today.html
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