Full lives, and also that they existed and that happened.

You can work with that. Why the statue or marker is there matters imo, not definitive, but significant. There are few cases I'm aware of where I personally come down on the side of leaving them be. Cemeteries, battlefields, very local things. Simple markers, like the names on the Rotunda of all UVa students that died in the Civil War along with all the other wars, I would have left that, with context. Certainly get the objections.

edit: Read a couple months back something about how Lee warned against putting up statues to glorify the Confederacy, that it would be harmful.

[Post edited by hoodeyo at 07/31/2020 9:19PM]

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Posted: 07/31/2020 at 9:12PM

VMI trying to hang on to their CSA heritage (link) -- Tuckahokie 07/31/2020 6:06PM

I don't know much about VMI so this could be off base, -- hoodeyo 07/31/2020 8:06PM

You may be what you resolve to be (or not). -- Chuck Taylor 07/31/2020 8:45PM

Full lives, and also that they existed and that happened. -- hoodeyo 07/31/2020 9:12PM

You are correct...but the momentum is working against them. ** -- Tuckahokie 07/31/2020 8:18PM

A field of Lost (Cause) shoes -- DanTheFan 07/31/2020 7:50PM

At least half of the population of the U.S. then probably condoned slavery. -- IB4TECH 07/31/2020 10:06PM

Of the people who objected to it, probably 40% did so because they believed -- southdenverhoo 07/31/2020 11:20PM

So if you remove the unfair competitiveness from the equation, the rest -- IB4TECH 08/01/2020 08:29AM

Southern state governments took up arms against the United States -- DanTheFan 07/31/2020 11:05PM

Fighting to protect their home. ** -- hoothat 07/31/2020 7:52PM

Women at VMI? What’s next, men at UVA? I love that, umm, joke. ** -- Hokieesith 07/31/2020 7:24PM

Why? Looking for a date? ** -- TomGlansAski 07/31/2020 8:21PM

He’s too sheepish to ask ** -- 111Balz 07/31/2020 8:48PM

Just like they held on to male only... ** -- SCHOO 07/31/2020 7:11PM

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Well there's a shock. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 07/31/2020 6:15PM

Full lives, and also that they existed and that happened.

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