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In reply to the discussion: Do you support renaming roads/schools/bridges to eliminate references to Confederate Leaders? [View all]Johonny
(22,127 posts)Don't you think? If the soldiers that fought in the war put one up in memory of the war, then I'm not sure I care. Anymore than if I care if Iraq war veterans or Vietnam war veterans put up monuments in memory. I think soldiers that survived the war get more leeway from people.
But let's be honest. Most flags waving today, and monuments weren't put up by the people that fought that war. They were put up in the 50s and 60s as a direct response to the civil rights movement. That monument in a civil war cemetery isn't what we're talking about. So in the end, yes, many of these were put up not because Lee lead the confederate army for part of the war, but because during the civil rights movement they wanted something tangibly yet difficult to attack politically to rally around. It is unclear if Lee would even have wanted all these monuments or the stupid flags of that lost war to fly.