Salute! For 2026, make a resolution to go read the Confederate monuments for yourself—our ancestors carved their reasons to fight in stone so plainly enough for a child to understand. [video taken July 21, 2024, RJ] On this 1873 Confederate memorial at Olivet Cemetery in Moorefield, West Virginia, the inscription rings clear across a century and a half: “TO THE MEMORY OF OUR CONFEDERATE DEAD WHO FELL IN THE LATE WAR IN DEFENCE OF CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY AND OUR HOMES.” Not a word about preserving