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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When ‘slavery’ is forgotten, we shall all be slaves...............
They need a beat down.....................
Public school educated vandals. Main stream Democrats.
Man, that guy is ripped. No wonder he was such a great General.
Next they’ll be destroying old records by Brenda Lee.
Thanks SJackson. What an unusual circumstance -- a modern history topic for the GGG weekly digest ping. :^)
No wonder they can't place those Confederate heroes in any kind of historical context. They think they should be judged as 2019 people because they have no clue what people were like in the 1860's.
“Yeah, they should have gone to NOLA and targeted Andrew Jackson”
Dinesh D’Souza is already on that bandwagon. Seems like some imports from the Indian subcontinent enjoy trashing American heroes who don’t measure up in political correctness.
“Yeah, they should have gone to NOLA and targeted Andrew Jackson”
Dinesh D’Souza is already on that bandwagon. Seems like some imports from the Indian subcontinent enjoy trashing American heroes who don’t measure up in political correctness.
More evidence that the people that did it are idiots.
As well as the reporters. “...attempting to set fire....” would have been better.
“And this is assumed....why?”
Probably because demonizing anything and anyone connected to the Confederacy is approved of by the politically correct of both Parties, ranging from Nikki Haley Republicans to AOC Democrats.
[leftie nitwit then sez] "WHATever".
“With enough dynamite and gasoline, anything will burn.”
Obviously, they just didn’t use enough of either.
Next stop for the vandals - Hong Kong! :0)
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