confederate soldiers
-
VA Official Allegedly Displayed Portrait of KKK Grand Wizard for Years
According to David J. Thomas Sr., a senior official at the Department of Veterans Affairs’ central office, he only hung a portrait of the Ku Klux Klan’s first grand wizard, Nathan Bedford Forrest, because it was “beautiful.” And despite knowing that Forrest was a Southern general, Thomas claims he was unaware of the man’s sordid—and…