Report on the 2010 Letter to President Obama

2010 REPORT ON THE LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA – Ed Sebesta 8/21/10

The letter was mailed on May 1, 2010 to President Barack H. Obama. There were a total of 48 co-signatures for the letter. President Obama sent a wreath to the Arlington Confederate monument and the African American Civil War memorial. He did not reply to our letter as of 8/15/10.

The History News Network did have our letter online with a link from their main page and additionally our letter from last year.

2010 Letter on the History News Network http://hnn.us/articles/126704.html.

2009 Letter on the History News Network http://hnn.us/articles/85884.html.

The letters and links to news articles about the letter are on the blog http://arlingtonconfederatemonument.blogspot.com, as are the reports on the letters and additional information.

As a result of these letters I was interviewed for a planned article in the Washingtonian about President Obama and the Civil War Sesquicentennial and how Obama should and will mark the Sesquicentennial.

I am planning on writing a 2011 letter and making this an annual effort until a president ceases to send a wreath to the Arlington Confederate monument. It allows us to get the issues of Federal government support for neo-Confederacy before the public, and to raise other issues about neo-Confederacy and the Lost Cause.