(September 11, 2017 at 10:44 am)TheBeardedDude Wrote: You can learn about the history without having to memorialize it.
Absolutely. There are some things worth memorializing; those things do not include traitors who fought a war to maintain slavery. Fuck that shit. And the memorials we do choose to have should not be confused with history itself or the act of learning it.
Quote:You can honor the fallen and respect the soldiers who fought on both sides, without having to memorialize the traitors.
I don't hear anyone crying about how we'll all forget 9/11 because there are no statues of the hijackers anywhere. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.