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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;HawkeEye, post: 3339927, member: 86305&quot;]Well there were some definite KKK connections, but it was a different time with different sentiments.&nbsp; The monument was built to honor the south&#039;s soldiers and war dead, who were numerous.&nbsp; Please keep in mind that Congress later passed a bill including all CSA soldiers to be US veterans.&nbsp; Also note that Lincoln offered the command of the Northern army to Lee before he went back to Virginia to lead the Army of Northern Virginia.&nbsp; <a href="https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150630051837AAd7hGa&amp;guccounter=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150630051837AAd7hGa&amp;guccounter=1" rel="nofollow">https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150630051837AAd7hGa&amp;guccounter=1</a>&nbsp; Remember that Gutzon Borglum was a KKK sympathizer and went on to carve Mount Rushmore.</p><p><br /></p><p>A difficult time in our history for sure, but just about every nation on earth has been through this cycle.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1a1f7l/are_there_any_countries_that_never_had_slavery/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1a1f7l/are_there_any_countries_that_never_had_slavery/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1a1f7l/are_there_any_countries_that_never_had_slavery/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Please get a coin from Rome, Greece, England, France, Spain, Cuba, Ireland, Wales, South Africa, etc. and explain the same to your children.&nbsp; There are at least 10 countries with slavery today <a href="https://www.wonderslist.com/10-countries-with-most-slaves/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.wonderslist.com/10-countries-with-most-slaves/" rel="nofollow">https://www.wonderslist.com/10-countries-with-most-slaves/</a> all shameful of course.&nbsp; Most of these we send foreign aid to and have for decades, so Congress needs to look in the mirror.&nbsp; Include in that group China and India, places many travel to and seem to have no problem with.&nbsp; Countries we outsource to and whose low cost of production no one seems to have a problems with.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was a difficult time in our past, but a cycle that every nation has gone through in history.&nbsp; We need to be proud of our accomplishments since the war given the opportunities we all enjoy, and celebrate how we all came back together.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s keep politics out of coin collecting, they are different things and there will be no coins to collect if we put historical qualifiers on our collecting interest!&nbsp; Coins are a great way to study history and connect with it, not a lever to criticize it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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