Posted on 02/22/2019 9:24:08 AM PST by SJackson
Statue vandals seem to have mistaken WWII hero for Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, museum officials say
Vandals in North Carolina may be in need of a history lesson after having set fire to a statue honoring a World War II hero they apparently mistook for a Confederate general, officials said earlier this week.
A white marble monument of U.S. Army Maj. Gen. William C. Lee, who commanded the 101st Airborne Division's "Screaming Eagles" during World War II, was doused with flammable liquid and set on fire last week, museum officials said. The statue bears black scorch marks running up its left side.
The suspects seem to have confused Lee with Gen. Robert E. Lee, who led the Confederate army during the Civil War some 80 years earlier, officials said.
I was surprised that anybody would do that to this museum statue, Mark Johnson, curator of the General William C. Lee Airborne Museum in Dunn, told Goldsboro's WNCN-TV. This is not a Civil War museum and this is not Robert E. Lee.
Aside from their last name, the two Lees have nothing in common, according to Johnson. The former Lee was known as the father of the U.S. Airborne Army and an international war hero of World War II, he told the station.
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Morons.
...101st Airborne Division’s “Screaming Eagles” during World War II...
They probably also think that Charlie Chaplin was the leader of Nazi Germany.
Is anyone surprised that such morons, who would attempt to erase American history to suit their personal narrative better, wouldn’t even know one Lee from another? I bet they couldn’t even name which wars each Lee was involved in!
So I wonder if they put up a statue of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee the same folks would vandalize it?
Socialism embraces and encourages the stupid
They didn’t mistake it.
Wonder what they’d do to a Sheila Jackson Lee statue.
Well, the Confederate Missile is still on its pad in Cordele, awaiting the launch codes.
Stupid too-not even in the right century or the right war
Robert, William, whats the diff?
Statues need to be set with cameras. Must smollett these people and if authorities wont prosecute, they must wake up in Mexico.
Sheila “Jackson” “Lee”? Talk about a 2-fer!!
AKA dumba$$es.
Must have been the New Yorkers that moved to NC.. sarcasm.
If he has a statue, he’s a bad man!
It was nice being Seinfeld while it lasted.
Being Idiocracy hurts the brain.
Vivien Leigh, Robert E. Lee, what’s the diff?
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