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Originally Posted by Windguy
Statues of rebel soldiers are inappropriate in our parks and what not. They were traitors and should be vilified and not glorified. If you want them to serve as history lessons, put them in museums that teach about the horrors of slavery and what happens when people stress our differences more than what we have in common.
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I guess that makes soldiers in our war of independence from Great Britain part of the same category. What do we do when a generation decides WWI and WWII soldiers were wrong and starts tearing down their memorials? Those who deny history are doomed to repeat it. We learn from mistakes that have been made. Civil wars have been fought since time began. The soldiers who fought in them were honorable and fought for their side. Just because they lost, they should not be vilified or hated. Perhaps in the future, we veterans in the Villages may find ourselves on the wrong side of this argument over Korean, Viet Nam and Middle Eastern wars. Once we are gone, there will be no one to refute the mob mentality that exists today. Reminds me of the Farenheit 451 movie where all books were burned so history and knowledge would disappear.