I don't want to erase history.

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34. In 1989 the east and west Germans tore the Berlin wall down.

Was there anybody saying "oh, but history" for the sake of preserving that freaking wall? The people who kept pieces of the wall were keeping souvenirs only for the sake of the satisfaction of destruction of the IDEA of the wall, not just the actual boundary of the wall.

As for the concern trolls expressing outrage about destruction of the sculptor's artwork in these bronze statues -- I will say it like they tell the hoarders concerned about their piles of stuff on the TV show -- take a picture. That's your "memory" now and the act of destruction is the new history we need to always remember. Anyway, there are detailed schematics and photos of the statue as "artwork" for history or art buffs.

Some of these more well-known monuments are being relocated to Civil War museums. If it's only one - well, that's more than enough, but I think there will be several preserved. I hope those museums will also add exhibits of photos and film of some of the other statues being torn down recently and turned to rubble or upcycled into something more useful than some local government's pisspoor decision to spend town funds years ago lionizing hateful, wrong-headed men who were on the wrong side of humanity and the wrong side of history.