Don’t erase our history, no matter how ugly it is
Vice President Pence told “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday, “Rather than tearing down monuments that have graced our cities all across this country for years, we ought to have been building more monuments.”
There has been a push for decades to remove the flags and monuments glorifying treason and oppression; the push tends to get louder when people are harassed in its name.
No one is trying to change history, the push is to stop glorifying it. People who supported treason and oppression should not have a stage in public parks and government buildings, just pages in history books. Justin Cameron
How come no one had a problem with Confederate monuments when Barack Obama was president? Why now all of a sudden? These fools want to change history! It’s time to revolt and take our country back! Steve Zonsa
Does anybody out there really
understand what is happening in our world today? They are the people who are trying to erase history. Our schools no longer teach American history the way it was once taught. We are witnessing jihadists destroying Roman monuments. We witnessed the Taliban destroyed large Buddhist statues carved into the side of a mountain over 1,000 years ago. We have a history of watching as Nazi Germany destroy books in bonfires. Does this bring us a better life destroying history? Or are we erasing history only to make some of the same terrible mistakes and create a new path.
The old adage “those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it” is very true. This isn’t a purge of our history simply because of people being uncomfortable with what they see, this is a purge of our history with a much more dire plan. Bruce Bielfelt
Sanibel, Fla.