Quote Originally Posted by RhythmDawg View Post
Why do you keep calling them false idols?
Yeah, I don't think 99 percent of Southerners see them that way. They do see them as part of our history. When I think of New Orleans and Vicksburg I am reminded of the battles that took place there. It's history. Why erase it? For my part, in places like those mentioned above, I would have no problem adding monuments of the main Union officers who figured prominently in the battles. When I was young in Arkansas, there was a picture of the Battle of Pea Ridge on the wall of a hall in my elementary school. It made the war more real to me, to know that a documented battle took place in my state.