If these men can shake hands and recognize each other as Americans, the rest of us damn well should be able to as well.
Posted on 08/04/2025 10:36:02 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Agree it should be restored as well as any Confederate Statues of long standing. They bled, too.
That definitely should have already been restored. Get on that and get it done.
I consider the reconciliation of the North and South after the war and for the following 100 years, one of the great post war happenings of history, that it showed the greatness of America and Americans, we were always proud of it.
Who could have guessed that in the 21st century so much effort would be devoted to undoing it all and to stir deadly, hateful passions in people many generations from it, in a population of which most are post war immigration people anyway, and in a population of Americans who don’t even know anything about the war, just that they are supposed to hate right now, someone, for something, and take to the streets with sledge hammers and pulling ropes.
If these men can shake hands and recognize each other as Americans, the rest of us damn well should be able to as well.
Second that.
It’s a touching memorial and a lesson for Americans and the rest of the world.
The decision to allow the “Wayward Sisters” to return with honor intact was one of the smartest (and rarest) ends to a civil war in history.
The decision to undo that was a disgrace, and foolish besides.
This reconciliation business sounds good. However, the end result was the return of southern Democratic political power and racial suppression for many decades to come afterwards.
Indeed, the Daughters of the Confederacy were the primary ‘foot soldiers’ in creating the mythology that allowed this ‘reconciliation’ that returned political power to the old school Democratic powers that caused the mess to begin with - with nonsensical concepts like a grand “Lost Cause” and “Noble Cause”.
They even managed to coopt the Sons of Union Veterans into this nonsense - reconciliation of old foes.
Reconciliation of individuals - not reconciliation to the immoral reason for the conflict.
Sadly our county removed the Confederate Soldier statue that has stood on the County seat Square for decades till some dork damaged it several years back.
Absolutely! Truth be known, those guys depicted in the Confederate Statues were doing more to honor the spirit of the US Constitution than their northern counterparts! It’s real hard trying to convince idiots that propaganda wars did not just happen in the twentieth century. The history books were written by the victors; if you want the truth, go to original documents.
see post above, it appears it’s you I’m describing.
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DJT and SECDEF, get it done!!
Absolutely right. The great spirit of reconciliation that led to so many reunions, monuments and installation names completely vanished in just a couple of years starting in 2020. Let’s hope President Trump is listening to these calls for this monument to be restored.
The South was punished with denial of voting rights until 1876. The Radical Republicans of that day were intent on punishing the South. This fueled the rise of the Southern Democrat Party.
Yes they did...
Apparently the base is still there, and the statue not destroyed. Unlike the statue of Lee in Charlotte that black activists gleefully sent to the foundry
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_Memorial_(Arlington_National_Cemetery)
“”””’This fueled the rise of the Southern Democrat Party.”””””
Was that one different from the one that formed the confederacy and fought the Civil War?
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