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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is shameful we ever had statues to those treasonous traitors.  The reckoning is long overdue.[/quote]

They weren't treasonous traitors.  Stick to facts.

I don't mind taking down the statues but there's a lot of recent revisionist history from both sides.  [/quote]

Np How do you figure they weren't traitors?  They wanted to secede from the US.  That is the very definition.  They took an oath to support the US and the constitution, not the southern states[/quote]

[b]That would be the case for Confederates who resigned from the US military to fight on behalf of their states.
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For most Confederates, allegiance to their local towns and their states was much stronger than their allegiance to the United States, and they'd taken no oath to defend the US or the Constitution.  The problem was that the states' rights they undertook to defend had as one of their principal tenets the right to own other human beings. [/quote]

Right, and those are the folks (Like Robert E Lee) who are having their statues removed. Traitors. [/quote]

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