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Dan I appreciate your service and your sentiment. IIRC The vast majority of Confederate soldiers volunteered and they and their families had a higher percentage of slave ownership compared to the general population.
Regardless though - these memorials would be like having ‘art’ pieces of German soldiers in France or Belgium, or maybe even have a plaque and a heroic looking assemblages of SS soldiers in Dachau. It is absurd to me - and just writing that last part makes me sick to my stomach.
Yes, there can and should be sculpture and art that shows the horrors and struggles of war - humans have been really good at murdering each other on a vast scale for most of our history.
It’s been a long time since I visited Gettysburg - but I don’t think it is right or just to have these memorial statues commemorating men that fought and died over the right to own other humans as property. There was a push to have these memorials, often funded by southern states at a time when our fellow Americans were dealing with Jim Crow laws and just trying to access their full rights as citizens. Conveniently these memorials never seem to mention slavery or white supremacy - but often mask their language with words like ‘heritage’.
I’ve said my piece, and I’ll leave this thread now.
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