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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, I'm not a native Virginian, but I live here now and likely will for the remainder of my life, and my children were born and will be raised here. I don't like all this revisionist history, where Confederates get to be presented as men worthy of honor. They were not and are not. They were traitors to our nation, and they LOST. The winners get to write history, not the losers. That's how it goes. Maybe we should sue the daughters and sons of the confederacy to remove these names and statues that they forced upon us. [/quote]

They were not "forced" when they were built.  They were "forced" by their children and descendants who were honoring their fathers and grandfathers.  Please remember that. Most of these monuments were built as the soldiers were dying off.  It's too bad you cannot understand that.  They did see them as men of honor because they wished to do so and they loved them.  Lee was looked up to because he fought for them and promoted peace after the Civil War.  He could have acted differently.  And, please remember, that they were pardoned.  This was done in the name of unity for our country.  And, their sons and grandsons fought proudly for the US in WWI, WWII, and following wars.  I am sorry you cannot see that.  You should teach your children to learn from their mistakes and tell them what a great country we live in that we could come together after such a bloody, bloody war.
And, there were battles fought all over Virginia and in this area.  You want your children to be ignorant of that?

Other countries have not unified after civil wars or other conflicts.  Look what happened in Ireland.  Centuries of conflict.  Iraq.  There are plenty of examples.  And, FWIW, the Irish still honor those who fought.[/quote]

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