Posted on 05/23/2017 12:49:38 PM PDT by Leaning Right
To the editor: So Mayor Mitch Landrieu and the City Council of New Orleans feel that the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was a “public nuisance”? (“New Orleans removes a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from its perch of 133 years,” May 19)
Good thing Landrieu is not mayor of Washington, where the Vietnam Veterans Memorial represents a period of public divisiveness. It has been called the memorial that nobody wanted except the Vietnam vets.
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When the war started, Lee owned no slaves, but Grant did - I think they tore down the wrong statue.
“When the war started, Lee owned no slaves, but Grant did - I think they tore down the wrong statue.”
Where in New Orleans is the Ulysses S. Grant statue?
R E Lee was the greatest American general.
There are many more CSA icons who are deserving of a memorial, but I get the general point.
Destroying historical artifacts should be illegal. Wait until these fiends find out there are similar artifacts and portraits in museums and galleries - will they trash them too?
Before modern photography and sound recording, history was documented in sculpture and paintings.
God help us.
What is your point?
Washington, New York, and Chicago have grant memorials honoring the slave owner....
“Washington, New York, and Chicago have grant memorials honoring the slave owner....”
In the original post, it was implied that ‘they’ took down the wrong statue.
And being that the only ‘they’ that took down the Robert E. Lee statue was the City of New Orleans, I was asking where in New Orleans the Grant Statue was located.
If there is a Grant statue in New Orleans, and the city owns that statue, they can take it down. It’s their statue.
That has to be the most insulting, stupid, offensive thing anyone could say about that memorial. It list all the dead young men who gave everything they had to this country and it is a comfort to the families of those young men and those of us who survived. It only goes to show the rank sliminess and ingratitude of the dimbulb Left.
> R E Lee was the greatest American general. <
Perhaps him and Washington (in no particular order). Grant, Ike, Patton, etc. all had their qualities. But all of them fought from a position of advantage. Lee and Washington were underdogs.
I think you missed the writer’s rather obtuse point. I believe he was saying that both the Civil War and the Vietnam War were divisive. One should not pull down a statue just because it marked a divisive period in our history.
I see...I misunderstood your post...Sorry about that...
Other way around.
For the record I'm opposed to removing the statues in New Orleans.
At West Point, cadets study the military strategies of Robert E Lee and Stonewall Jackson, among others. Removing the monuments to these great generals will remove the historical context for these battles and strategies.
Besides that, another letter to the LA Times asserts that removing the monuments will enable Americans to “stop fighting the Civil War”. Well, the anti-Trump “resistance” is planning a summer of violence that might constitute a new American civil war. Are we to believe that the AntiFa insurrection of 2017 is our first civil war?
Once the Democrats and the media joined up, Hanoi had it made. The American people were the ones that provided the more than 2 million young men who served their country during that period.
Those clowns certainly didn't want the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial. Too bad.
> the Vietnam War wasn’t “divisive” - that’s a fiction of the Left. We had a very effective and treasonous pro-enemy organization subverting everything to help the Communists to win. It was as “antiwar” as a hand grenade <
True that. But nevertheless some folks do see that war as divisive. We shouldn’t remove a statue (or a monument) just because someone thinks it’s “divisive”. That’s all the writer here is trying to say.
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