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The author couldn’t be more wrong. Look, I have no emotional investment in the Confederacy. But I have great respect for the poem quoted below.

Oh, and one more thing. Some folks argue that since the Confederates fought against the United States, they should not be honored. But Sitting Bull and Geronimo also fought against the United States. Should they be erased from history too?

The well-known poem:

They came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.