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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 4579326, member: 105098&quot;]Nice commerative.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as all these statues go, and there&#039;s over 1000 of them all over the south I think there&#039;s over 50 Lee statues, I&#039;m not interested in tax dollars paying for them in perpetuity.</p><p>There&#039;s museums and history books. Put these statues there and whoever wants to go look at them can go and look at them. For the most part people do not go to see these statues and the locals know they are there but almost as an afterthought like a bridge or a building until something happens and then there&#039;s a stink raised.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s been 155 years since the civil war. If reconciliation hasn&#039;t happened by now it never will for those people, but I personally don&#039;t want my tax dollars going to maintaining any of these runner up trophies anymore. They lost. They took up arms against the United States. It&#039;s time for these to be resigned to museums and history books in my opinion. We have plenty of recorded history from the era.</p><p><br /></p><p>None of these statues mean anything to me at all, might as well be a park bench as far as I am concerned and the bench would be more useful, but I do understand there are people out there that either feel strongly positive or strongly negative about them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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