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08-25-2017, 08:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Tom Earp
WOW, DAMN, AMAZING, SHAZAM, there Is ACTUALLY ADULT CONVERSATION about this! That is why I posted this and for no other reason.
Thank you. Actually, who cares when The Statues were built? They were built to HONOR MEN WHO FOUGHT IN WAR and died! Were they Heroes from Those Who Were Not Union Troops any more than than those who fought for the South and what they believed in? Who today can say? Were you there? Of course not! Easy to second guess isn't it?
How many Statues were built ASAP? How about The VIET NAM WAR?
Just saying!
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Sigh.
Why are you bringing in the Viet Nam war?
You really really really really really need to READ and RESEARCH and STUDY before you go off on these diatribes. Oh, and don't think it hasn't been noticed: nice that you don't respond to any of the female posters here, only the males.
Sigh. "just saying!"
Hi to MysticCat. I've missed you.
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08-25-2017, 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by AZTheta
Hi to MysticCat. I've missed you.
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I second this. 
This NY Times op-ed link was written this week by one of my daughter's Washington and Lee friends. The author was just selected as a Rhodes Scholar, and he was one of the valedictorians of his class. And my daughter's date to one of her sorority formals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/o...tionalism.html
(if you get the "ad page" just click on the blue bar with "continue on to NY Times")
It's an interesting take on the students' perspective, and how they approach the pros and cons of how Robert E. Lee and his legacy are viewed on campus.
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08-25-2017, 07:09 PM
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Originally Posted by apd76
I'm a native New Yorker and still reside in NYC. My family first arrived in the US from Italy 30 years after the Civil War ended so I have no ancestors who fought in that war. The removal of the statues is an effort by the left to destroy certain aspects of southern culture.
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As someone who has lived in the South all of his life, and whose ancestors did fight in the war, I'll just say this is BS. Kevin has it right. Thanks anyway for trying to defend our Southern culture, but please don't bother. We can defend it—the parts worth defending, anyway—just fine on our own.
AZTheta and Sciencewoman: Hey, y'all! 
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08-25-2017, 08:30 PM
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Originally Posted by MysticCat
As someone who has lived in the South all of his life, and whose ancestors did fight in the war, I'll just say this is BS. Kevin has it right. Thanks anyway for trying to defend our Southern culture, but please don't bother. We can defend it—the parts worth defending, anyway—just fine on our own.
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