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Confederate General Robert E. Lee advised no Statuary for fear of war”'s sores kept open
According to historian Jonathan Horn, Lee was often consulted in his lifetime about proposals to erect monuments to Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson and others. In a 1866 letter to fellow Confederate Gen. Thomas L. Rosser, Lee wrote, “As regards the erection of such a monument as is contemplated, my conviction is, that however grateful it would be to the feelings of the South, the attempt ... would have the effect of ... continuing, if not adding to, the difficulties under which the Southern people labour.” Three years later, Lee was invited to a meeting of Union and Confederate officers to mark the placing of a memorial honoring those who took part in the battle of Gettysburg. “I think it wiser not to keep open the sores of war but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, to commit to oblivion the feelings engendered,” he wrote in a letter declining the invitation.
Frank Reflections: The Korean Dilemma
Self-defense is a “slippery slope” BY FRANK ERICKSON The “scholars” are debating if the United States of America can “legally” attack North Korea and claim it is an act of self-defense. Why is it those same “scholars” never talk about people”'s right to attack the USA in self-defense? How can you continue to kill people claiming self-defense, when your very existence comes from murdering those who had the right of self-defense against you? How can the U.S. government claim the right to kill in self-defense when Native Americans and their right to self-defense should have taken down the U.S. government a long time ago? All of this “warring” has nothing to do with self-defense. Why can”'t Cuba “war” upon North Korea in self-defense? Self-defense is a “slippery slope,” especially when those with the biggest bombs keep claiming to have the right to use it. How many use [...]
