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Originally Posted by jrg908369
As a southerner born and raised I always wondered why we named military bases after losing generals. And why we put up statutes to losers. Made no sense to me. I was a history major in college and a history buff and I don't see statutes of Hitler in Germany or Mussolini in Italy. They are embarrassed and did something about it. I guess you are also upset that NASCAR has banned the confederate flag and all confederate stuff from their race tracks?
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If losers are bad, does that mean that we should take Gen. Custer out of our history books? Perhaps we should never speak of Sitting Bull again? Didn't we lose something like 50,000 American casualties in the battle of Gettysburg?
Just being facetious, but it is my opinion that we leave history alone and use it to learn from it. If statues of slave owners bother some as being embarrassing, then perhaps wearing African colors by those that had ancestors that were sold into slavery by Africans should also be avoided? Just a thought, not attempting to insult anyone.