The bloodiest conflict our country ever endured, that resolved the issues of states’ rights, secession, and slavery, relied exclusively on military actions. These military actions were fought out to the last measure of human endurance. Great men like Grant, Sherman, Lee, and Johnston and their soldiers resolved what should have been political issues. Monuments North and South testify to the sincerity of those few who endured the tragedy of that struggle.
Their involvement came after abolitionists and planters and their political allies failed to identify those positions outside their inflexible ideologies that would have brought peaceful agreement. Instead these fire-eating miscreants of both persuasions stumbled into the Civil War.
Now similar intellectual dwarfs would rewrite this history.
Beautiful post.
For Utopia to be accepted the people must know no history. We are almost there. It is several decades since any history was taught in the schools, but children still ask, "Who is that man on the horse?" and Daddy or Mommy takes the child over to the plaque. Perhaps just identifying the statued hero will incite curiosity in the child and he will study on his own. Those statues have to come down and it will not end with the Civil War. ALL the statues must come down, eventually such statues as FDR and Wilson, even. Totalitarians of whatever stripe, Communist or Moslem have to erase history. History can have begun no earlier than the advent of the total state. So long as the people do not know what has gone before they do not know that they are in hell.
The question is, why are we allow intellectual dwarfs to dictate to us?
Wow that was good!
Jealous. :)
Gettysburg was the terrible scene of a historic tragedy. The many actors in that tragedy are portrayed throughout that large stage in appropriate historical context. This is different from putting one figure in a public park and putting all the emphasis on that person for better or for worse.