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MOUNTAIN CREEK, Ala. - The last of the more than 60,000 Confederate veterans who came home to Alabama after the Civil War died generations ago, yet residents are still paying a tax that supported the neediest among them.Despite fire-and-brimstone opposition to taxes among many in a state that still has Heart of Dixie on its license plates, officials never stopped collecting a property tax that once funded the Alabama Confederate S
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stanley canada erans used to stroll.Slaves, freedmen spied on South during Civil War Sunday Morning | The Civil War, 150 years laterFort Sumter cannons mark Civil War anniversaryThe tax once brought in millions for Confederate pensions, but lawmakers sliced up the levy and sent money elsewhere as the men and their wives died. No one has seriously challenged the continued use of the money for a memorial to the Lost Cause, in part because few realize it exists; one long-serving black legislator who thought the tax had been done away with said he wants to eliminate state funding for the park.These days, 150 years after the Civil War started, officials say the old tax typically brings in more than $400,000 annually for the park, where Confederate flags flapped on a recent steamy afternoon. That s not much compared to Alabama s total operating budget of $1.8 billion, but it s sufficient to give the park plenty of money to Oryh Poor Economy Darkens Cities Fireworks Shows
Yikes, as if we didn ;t already think the First World War claimed enough victims: A French historian says the number of soldiers killed in the Great War has been vastly understated 鈥?a death count too low by as many as one million. Above: Serbian prisoners of war are arranged in a semi-circle and executed by an Austrian firing squad, 1917. Credit Underwood 038; Underwood/Wikim
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