Confederate Vets Excluded from Hall of Fame…for now
March 24th, 2015 by Mike Vasilinda
5 people were inducted into the Veterans Hall of Fame today, but controversy continues to swirl around three who were nominated but not chosen because they served in the Confederate army. The law as written says they must have served in the US Military. One of them was David Lang’s great grandfather, who went on to found the modern National Guard in Florida. Land called the decision political.
“They came back from the war, they became citizens and they went forward from that point. In 1885, 20 years after the war, my great grandfather was appointed the adjutant General of the State of Florida” says Lang.
Dale Landry of the NAACP says the Conferate soldiers do not belong in the same Hall of Fame. “These were folks who fought in opposition. They killed veterans, they killed members if the United States Armed forces, you see, so, the confederacy fought against the United States armed forces.”
State lawmakers are planning on revising the law to allow the inclusion of all three who were omitted from the Hall of Fame today.
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