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Originally Posted by bimmertl
Really, kids won't know the history of our great country since a Robert E Lee statue was taken down?
Grew up in Wisconsin. Don't believe there were any Lee statues there or anywhere in the Midwest and probably most of the rest of the USA other than the South. Somehow millions of Americans learned US history without seeing statues of Lee. Amazing!
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Yeah way up in Connecticut we learned about the Civil War, also known as the War Between the States (among others). We learned that Lee was a general of the Confederate States - which no longer exists except in the minds of those who refuse to accept that the Confederacy lost the war.
We had no statues of Lee in my town, and we had no problem learning about him and the various battles. He should've just given up in Antietam. If I was a Confederate Southerner I would not want his statue being honored in my town's public park. Maybe a memorial statue to honor ALL the dead, like we have now with military memorials. But his role in the Civil War should not be glorified or celebrated.