[paulklenk]

Anyone who longs for the "good old days" of the Confederacy is a loser, and Southerners who still harp on the Civil War are double-losers. The south lost. I'm glad. We have a terrific union now and the world would therefore not have been as great a place if the south had seceded.

If indeed these 28 national parks have been perpetuating this alleged lame sympathy with the south at the expense of losing valuable artifacts, then I'm glad they are being reworked. Further, if they are presenting the story of the civil war through dusty curatorship instead of the compelling telling of history, all the more reason to overhaul them. There's nothing more boring than a librarian telling the story behind a bunch of unintegrated, miscellaneous artifacts. That's why the Smithsonian is due for an overhaul, too.