Confederate statues need to be preserved and protected, while a clueless, intimidated public needs to understand why.  A third of the male population of military age perished on battlefields far from home. Their journals, diaries and letters absolutely prove their motives were to protect their new nation and secure independence free from what became a corporate-DC nexus that reigns today. They rejected the north’s offer of a Constitutional amendment forever protecting slavery (CORWIN Amendment March 2, 1861) eviscerating the oft repeated and widely believed canard.

    Having lost, with no bodies to bury and no graves to mourn these monuments were erected in their memory. Read the inscriptions. There is nothing on any of them that supports the modernist absurdity they were erected for any other reason. “ In memory of....in remembrance of...to honor those...”appears almost universally.

    What is happening across the nation is both hateful and cowardly. The Taliban, ISIS, the communists destroy history. Can book burnings be far behind? It is time to say “enough” and for grownups to be grownups again. It’s also time to start teaching real history again. What is happening today is shameful.