Regarding The Flap Over Confederate Statues

[Rev. Rye]

If you put up plaques on the pedestals that put their actions into context, they might.

People don't get their history from statues.

To an extent, we do. The first time I ever heard of the Holocaust was from seeing a statue on my local village green dedicated to the Holocaust and the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising, ultimately leading to an obsession I still study today. I honestly think it's possible that a statue can nudge someone in the right direction, especially, if it acknowledges both sides of the controversy on a plaque.

That said, I still think that statue on the village green could benefit from a mention of the 60 million Germans who just went along with Hitler as well as the 6 million who died.