[Cogadh na Sith]

Five days before the Civil War ended in April 1865, the president and his youngest child, Tad, traveled to still-smoldering Richmond soon after Southern forces abandoned the city in flames.

But, he actually went there.

The statue commemorates an historic event no different than the Marines at Iwo Jima raising the flag statue, or any other historical statue.

Lincoln was a US President, he and his son did go to Richmond.

Men fought bravely at Richmond, but they lost it. The victors get to raise the statues...

I don't see the problem.

[wideawake]

The victors get to raise the statues

This insistence on being "victors" and demanding the rights of "victors" carries with it the idea that those who lost the war and their descendants are not fellow citizens but a conquered and subject people.

Keep reinforcing that stupid, destructive idea.

[putupon]

I don't see the problem.

That is the problem. People from all over the country coming to the town I live in, just to stir up $h!+, then go back home and leave the mess. I guess that's better than them staying though.

[wideawake]

But, he actually went there.

And Bismarck actually marched into Paris - but curiously, there are no statues erected to him there.

Boy, wouldn't it be a helpful and smart idea for a group of civic-minded Germans to erect a statue to the Iron Chancellor on the Champs-Elysee to commemorate victory in the Franco-Prussian War?

After all, it was 130 years ago, and the French and Germans are both partners now in the EU.

[muawiyah]

Everybody gets to raise statues in Richmond. It's full of 'em!