Confederate Memorial Day?

I just found out here that we Tennesseans (and each of the Southern states!) have a Confederate Memorial Day--actually, ours is called Confederate Decoration Day. I guess it's politically incorrect, and that's why I'd never heard of it, as far as I recall. Here is a link to the dates of the various states' Confederate Memorial Days. (I had, in recent years, heard about closings of some things in Alabama on Jefferson Davis' birthday, I thought, but maybe it was on the day of his surrender to Gen. Sherman, I'm not sure. Or maybe it's both!)

I enjoy studying and reading about American history, but I don't like political correctness. (It pretty much guarantees that facts will be distorted.)

My great grandfather (and other relatives, I assume) fought in the Civil War. He was among the many soldiers at Appomattox Court House when General Lee, a man whose character even his enemies could not find fault with, surrendered. We have a letter he wrote home from the war; he sounded lonely and homesick. I am proud that he fought, and I am glad to find that we have a day to honor him and the other men and boys who fought to defend their homes and preserve the freedoms that states' rights would have ensured. Too bad few folks know about that day; those men and boys fought just as honorably, sincerely, intensely, and valiantly as those in other wars our country has been involved in.

Mary Susan