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In reply to the discussion: BREAKING - Protesters in Durham topple confederate monument downtown [View all]NutmegYankee
(16,204 posts)18. The Northeast has monuments of almost the exact design in many small towns.
With additional monuments for WW1, WW2, and often later wars. Should they all come down?
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Ahhh. A call for unity by accusing multiple du members of being Russian trolls.
Weekend Warrior
Aug 2017
#17
I never saw you before tonight, and you seem to be all over the place with odd comments
Hekate
Aug 2017
#64
The Northeast has monuments of almost the exact design in many small towns.
NutmegYankee
Aug 2017
#18
Are they Civil War memorials or pertain to our national struggle with race?
Barack_America
Aug 2017
#31
They are Civil War dead monuments with a nameless anonymous soldier on top.
NutmegYankee
Aug 2017
#35
None of which, as far as I'm aware of, are of the United States' enemies in those wars.
eShirl
Aug 2017
#61
They aren't always old, but it's bad politics to go after one without a traitor on top.
NutmegYankee
Aug 2017
#30
Would "Anything that went up...." include the Civil War Unknowns Monument in Arlington Cemetary?
Petrushka
Aug 2017
#34
Maybe? Would one "wish to remember" the Confederate Memorial in Arlington and what it represents?--
Petrushka
Aug 2017
#44
Pretty much all those Confederate statues went up in the 1920s, one of the heydays of the KKK...
Hekate
Aug 2017
#63
When they died fighting against the USA to defend their enslavement of other human beings,
Dark n Stormy Knight
Aug 2017
#19
What is your basis for the assertion that the citizens of Durham wanted it taken down?
Ms. Toad
Aug 2017
#53
The law was passed two years ago, a month after the Charleston shootings, as anti-Confederate
struggle4progress
Aug 2017
#78
local government wants it down but the racist state legislature wont let them
grantcart
Aug 2017
#37
And if someone goes after the FDR memorial for Japanese internment camps? nt
MadDAsHell
Aug 2017
#55