The purge has started at West Point. General Robert E Lee is out. Soon any other members of the Confederate Army will be purged and forgotten as well. Bunch of woke dipshits.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11575225/West-Point-military-academy-remove-Confederate-imagery-beginning-Robert-E-Lee-portrait.html
bob
I wonder if we (the US, not APS) might have a discussion on the role leniency towards the CSA played in Reconstruction and the latter half of the 19th Century, and whether that attitude still help the goals of healing the rift in the country.
From everything I have read on the subject Gen Lee* was an honorable man that faced a hard choice between his oath and his home state, and did the best he could. But he did choose to betray his oath to the United States. Certainly the civil war, and the officers that had to make that choice should not be forgotten from history, indeed they are one of most teachable moments in this country's martial history. We should be able to calmly discuss the nuances of the situation and what led good men** to the wrong choice.
I fear however we have lost the ability as a society to have important conversations like that.
*Indeed, even that rank is possibly a mistake. He was a US Army Colonel, and did not make General until post treason.
** Some good men. There were certainly dishonorable officers there too. Forrest comes to mind. They are teachable for other reasons.