Excellent explanations saving me from the typing I was still organizing. “Don’t confuse me with the facts” seems to be the motto of too many here. They are either stubbornly ignorant, unwitting tools of villains (see “From the river to the sea”) or purposely malicious agents working to replace patriotism and faith in God with Big Government.
The average Southern soldier suffered severe hardships and deprivations most of their Northern counterparts never imagined - not for slavery’s sake (as that, like today’s illegal aliens, robbed poor citizen’s opportunities) but for the sake of their state’s being warred upon and ravaged after being financially screwed over by the Northern ones for decades.
Regarding the phrase “War of Northern Aggression” is no joke when learning how the Southern state’s were effectively punked by a Congress totally under control of the Northeastern industrial complex of that time.
Tearing down this statue is an insult to those who, despite all the tragedy, turned the other cheek and sought a brighter future. But we’re living in a time where Martin Luther King’s vision of an America where we’re judged on our qualities over color is rapidly being replaced with Diversity (voluntary segregation), Equity (socialism/communism) and Inclusion (being forced to accept people wrong for the job/task).
This crap is poisonous to America’s current and future well being and will most assuredly get our military defeated when the hostilities the Democrats and their RINO lap dogs are escalating become open wars.
As Ozzy sang in my favorite hymn: “Why don’t they go out and do the fight? Oh Lord yeah!”
1. Mlk Jr was a commie loving women beating phony. 2. “ The Union must and Shall be Preserved” Trump’s hero Andrew Jackson. 3. I agree with you about the Monument, it was in the spirit of Grant- Lee reconciliation. Grant refused to let his soldiers rejoice, and let the Army of the Virginia go home with thier horses. Lee refused to go Gurillia. This Monument honors that.