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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cachecoins, post: 4580254, member: 111237&quot;]Interesting medal.</p><p><br /></p><p>Statues aren&#039;t history. It won&#039;t be erased or forgotten if they are removed. Statues are differential reverence not history. If you get your history from monuments then you need to read more. That being said I understand why some might not like certain ones that glorify those who fought to continue owning human beings.we need more statues that show reverence to men like <b>Charles Sumner</b> or even <b>Sam Houston</b> who, after serving as Senator, Governor of two states, the President of a republic, the general who defeated Santa Anna and who proposed giving native Americans their own land...sacrificed all the good will of such a life by opposing breaking away from the union becoming a pariah, willing to give up slavery for the union.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then again, all people are flawed. We should not mythologize them but see them as they really were, warts and all.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Charles_Sumner_-_Brady-Handy.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s not forget the right to own humans was a prominent reason for seceding in Texas and other state&#039;s declaration of causes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Robert E. Lee even opposed it.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;As regards the erection of such a monument as is contemplated, my conviction is, that, however grateful it would be to the feelings of the South, the attempt, in the present condition of the country, would have the effect of retarding instead of accelerating its accomplishment, and of continuing if not adding to the difficulties under which the Southern people labor.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>He was opposed to continuing to fly the Confederate flag. He was also opposed to memorializing battlefields. The fact that such rancor always arises when these things come up shows he was probably right.</p><p><br /></p><p>It will all be remembered...</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, my family has been in the south for many generations and fought for the Confederacy (Georgia and Tennessee).</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the statues. I don&#039;t care that much. They don&#039;t offend me but I am not black and I can maybe understand why they don&#039;t like them in prominent places however as is often the case, it might be taken a bit overboard. I can imagine that if I lived in a town that had reverential statues of men who fought to continue owning people who looked like and owned my ancestors a few generations earlier...I might not like it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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