No grave sites should be neglected. It has always been a bedrock principle of the generational compact that our ancestors be honored and revered. Without respect for our ancestors, especially for veterans who made the supreme sacrifice, civilization crumbles and gives way to anarchy and the deterioration of civil society. 

To compensate for his own moral shortcomings and to bolster his flagging political popularity, Governor Northam has resorted to the worst kind of political pandering and polarization. There is plenty of bureaucratic waste and inefficiency that Governor Northam could eliminate to create additional funding for the neglected cemeteries mentioned in the article. Instead, Northam is dividing Americans by adopting a zero-sum game where there are only winners and losers instead of supporting a win-win situation beneficial to all. He is fully aware of the concept of public-private partnership. It has worked very well with veterans organizations like the UDC, SUVCW, SCV, SAR, American Legion and many other NGOs and patriotic organizations which step up to the plate to assist in the commemoration and maintenance of veterans grave sites. 

If he were truly interested in alleviating the neglect of cemeteries, Governor Northam could enlist the support of veterans organizations and NGOs like CAIR, ADL, the NAACP, and SPLC as well as service organizations like Lions, Rotary, Kiwanis, or the Elks to work with matching government funding to preserve neglected grave sites.

One NGO, the Texas Branch Royal Society of St. George, has, from its very beginning, been involved in its Adopt-A-Grave program with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to preserve and maintain the grave sites of Commonwealth servicemen buried in the United States. This project has been amazingly successful and has occurred without any local, state or federal government funding.

Northam's agenda, however, is a different one. The sooner it is exposed, the better!