I’m a Yankee who was fortunate enough to live most of my adult life immersed in the history of this great Commonwealth of Virginia.
I have donated thousands to preserve battlefields all over the country.
I take this tyrannical Taliban-like history erasing personally.
So do I.
I haven’t, but I respect and appreciate what you have done.
“I take this tyrannical Taliban-like history erasing personally.”
From some future conversation...
Teacher: We must always remember the horrors of slavery
Student: What was slavery and who did these horrors?
Teacher: Those who did these things have been stricken from all recorded history never to be remembered.
Student: OH! Then what is it we must remember and how do we even know it ever happened?
Removing Confederate statues from public places isn’t going to erase the history of The Civil War and what the Confederacy did to America. If the modern day Confederates feel so strongly about the statues then they should buy a piece of property and put all the statues they want on it. Or put themselves between the mobs and their beloved statues.
I don’t support vandalism, rioting and lawlessness or the destruction of a Confederate statue. I do support their removal and I have the right to my opinion. Never forget what the Confederacy sought to achieve. They and their supporters split this nation in two and caused the greast loss of life in American history. I don’t see anything honorable in that.