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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]The point of a monument is to celebrate and to remember, in a positive way, historical events and figures. [/b]Unless we want to honor Lee for his role in the Civil War, why have monuments to him? We can teach the history of the Confederacy without celebrating it.[/quote]

What??  Is history all about remembering only the 'good' things that happened?  That's a terrible idea.  If we don't remember the bad things, they'll just happen over and over.  Do you feel that way about everything?

And monuments aren't just to remember positive events.  They're to remember that a particular moment in history happened at that particular place.  [/quote]

The term that you're looking for is memorial. A memorial is an object that serves as a focus for a memory of something, usually a person or an event. For example, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial serves to remember soldiers who fought and died in the Vietnam War. But I highly doubt anyone would find the memorial to be celebratory of the Vietnam War in any way.

A monument is an object that is explicitly created to commemorate a person or an event, usually in celebration of something. The statue at Antietam celebrates Lee as a general who "fought for his home and the right of every people to self determination." How ironic. In other words, as an honorable figure who died for an honorable cause.

If people want to create a memorial that remembers the Southerners who died during the Civil War, they should do so. But there's a big difference between remembering and celebrating.[/quote]

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