For some reason, the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia has a large monument here in this cemetery in New Orleans.

I am not going to get drawn into the argument about tearing down (or not) monuments to various “heroes” of the Confederacy. Nope. I won’t.

All I am doing here is recording the way the light is coming in from the back of this monument. And the way the many of the names have worn away. And the way those two Confederate flags sure do look new, in spite of the fact that there is a heavy, locked gate across the entrance to the memorial.

Metairie Cemetery
New Orleans, Louisiana
photographed 4.24.2018