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NutmegYankee

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11. I don't consider a statue of a soldier in a soldier's graveyard to be quite the same.
Wed Aug 23, 2017, 08:54 PM
Aug 2017

In the case of generals and leaders, these were men, Officers, who had sworn an Oath to the USA and saluted her flag, and yet, turned around and ordered their men to fire on that flag and knock it to the earth below. I have little sympathy for them. But a statue of a soldier in a graveyard of such soldiers appears to be the proper context and a plaque can easily lay out the circumstances of their struggle and fate for all to understand.

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