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13.   Findings  Relevant  to  Permanent Monuments   of  Commemoration
In Maryland,  there exist a number of public monuments  to commemorate  the  genocidal   Holocaust   of the  nineteen  thirties   and forties  which victimized millions  of mostly white people,  including especially the Jews, on another continent.    The Task Force finds that this is as it should be because it views that all human suffering and degradations  which  involve  genocide,   slavery,   and  forced  labor visited   on   innocent  people   are   monstrosities.
In Maryland, there exist a number of public monuments to commemorate the sacrifices  of mostly white Civil War heroes  who fought for the Union, and the Task Force finds that this is as it should be.  In Maryland, there even exist a number of public monuments  to  commemorate the  lives  of mostly  white  soldiers  who fought to keep black Americans enslaved and the Task Force is not opposed to this.     It is, moreover, a matter of historic record that in 1939, Maryland adopted as its official state song words from a poem by James  Ryder Randall with Confederate sympathies  [See Maryland Manual,   1996-1997  edition,  p.   18].