Whitewashing the fact that the South were seen as traitors doesn't have much to do with Iraq or Afghanistan, does it?
Ignoring the laws enacted by the United States after the Civil War that forgave wrongs and made the Confederate veterans to be honored as United States veterans is only telling everyone that the progressives want to go back to the old ways.
Those laws were enacted to help heal and bind the country back together.
Progressives should be careful picking at old wounds. I could just as easily add Japan, Germany, Austria, Italy, and a few other countries to that list for United States territories if we're going back to the old ways.
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The wounds caused by all those statues erected in the 50s and 60s aren't really all that old.
So laws enacted by Congress and approved by the United States President that say Confederate veterans are to be treated and honored as United States veterans are meaningless to you. If you're going to get upset over a date that a statue was erected I would say that's your issue and so far all you've proven is that you want to create issues over something that was already settled decades ago. Calling the Confederates traitors, wanting to confiscate land and holdings, and pulling down statues of vets who are to be honored as United States veterans by federal law only displays your contempt for a process that was decided on bipartisonally in Congress.
If you want to go back to the old ways and ignore the arbitration agreed upon then by all means let's go back to the old ways.
Rape, pillage, putting people to the sword, confiscating lands, burning to the ground, salting the land, etc, etc, etc,...
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