(September 9, 2017 at 9:51 am)Tiberius Wrote:(September 9, 2017 at 9:23 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: CJ, do you, a veteran, honestly support the public display and maintenance of statues honoring these men for the treason to country and oath they committed is appropriate?
People need education about what these guys did, because they literally went to war against the US. In the south the confederacy is remembered for fighting for "states rights" and yes, that's true...they were fighting for the state's right to keep slaves. The more people who know how fucked up these people actually were the better.
There's none of that on the statues. Anything on the plinth is praise for the noble cause they fought for. 95% of those statues are in the "rebel states", so you wouldn't expect anything else.
