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Originally Posted by Damien
Well I you could make that case. I imagine there will be many of these debates to come here over our history and what we've chosen to honour as well.
In this specific comparison though I think it's different honouring soldiers who died in a war than those who led them. I would be a lot more sympathetic to keeping up a memorial to those who died in the civil war rather than their leaders. In the case of Robert Lee they're specifically honouring one of their leaders who took up arms against their own country, that alone is questionable but when you combine with what they were fighting for you can see why people find it objectionable as well.
Maybe they did put it up because he was fighting for his state but maybe they're better of questioning if they wanted their state to be against the Union and for slavery?
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Anyone who knows what happened in the southern states after the war would say that he was a patriot defending his state from almost complete destruction and it's population from mass rape and murder.