One of the concepts I learned about in my military studies was
The Golden Bridge.
If you are in combat with someone, give them a chance to quit the fight.
Maybe you offer to let them surrender.
Maybe you let them leave the battlefield but without their heavy equipment.
If you fight someone and make it a fight to the death, then it’s a fight...
To the death.
After four years of War in this country, I think that everyone, everyone, was tired of the butchery.
The Union offered acceptable terms to the Confederate Soldiers and the awful fighting was done.
The Union leaders didn’t make it a fight to the death.
They gave the Confederates a Golden Bridge to go over.
I think that part of this Golden Bridge was that the Confederates could respect their military leaders.
I think that we had a lot of families who had family members in the Confederate Army and they want to respect them.
I believe that we should allow those families the continuation of The Golden Bridge.
Any statues dedicated to slavery, honoring slavery, should be removed.
Why were Confederate statues not targeted for removal during the Obama administration?