Southern Bread

If you’re driving through Kentucky, as we did for the last few days, and all of the sudden you see this poking out of the tops of the trees:

don’t worry. You haven’t gone crazy and ended up in D.C. This isn’t the Washington Monument. It’s the Jefferson Davis Monument. The fact that it looks identical to the Washington monument is purely happenstance (yeah right):

I think it’s pretty funny myself. I mean, that thing looks just like the W.M. If you know this blog, there should be no doubt about the love I have for Southern history and heritage. But, I must question the idea of erecting a monument to a politician. Any politician. In particular, Jefferson Davis. It’s not that he was a particularly bad politician in relation to others. But, most of the Confederate military commanders hated him. Indeed it’s been said more than once that Davis himself was a huge factor contributing to the South losing the war. His micromanagement of military affairs is an undisputed matter of record.

I wanted to go by and see the monument in person really bad, but some events happened that denied me the pleasure. If anyone has a chance to visit it, please send me some better pictures. One interesting bit of trivia is that, evidently the Jeff. Davis Monument is the tallest unreinforced concrete structure in the world. Do not think about this as you are standing below it.