A possible fact Liberals ignore: Confederate veterans are American veterans according to public law 85–425 and many were black.

H.R. 358 (85th): An Act to increase the monthly rates of pension payable to widows and former widows of deceased veterans of the ...

... Spanish-American War, Civil War, Indian War, and Mexican War, and provide pensions to widows of veterans who served in the military or naval forces of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War

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