Editor:
I’ve watched television news clips of easterners tearing down statues and flags reminiscent of the Civil War between the North and the South of our United States.
My thoughts about this are that once again, the protesters are hysterical and irrelevant.
For one thing, if you interviewed any of them, as they tore down a statue of Robert E. Lee, they could likely tell you not one pertinent fact about him, or the Confederacy of slavery. They should have been required to learn, really learn about what they are destroying all memory of before they are given permits to remove these things.
Never again will a child ask their mother, “What was the Civil War? Who was that man?” – and fat chance that the mothers will even know what to say.
Many of the slaves believed they loved the South too. They hated and feared the Yankees too.
The Confederate flag has, in later years, come to stand for anyone who thought of themselves as a bit of a rebel. At this point it has been over 150 years since the Civil War. When I was a child, I knew elderly people who knew people who had fought in or been alive during the Civil War, but it is now many years and a number of generations since that time.
It is not important to normal people today except that we remain one nation instead of two.
People who need to frantically shriek about everything, for some reason, are the ones doing this. However, slavery is alive and well in our country today. Little Asian butterflies are brought over, not even very humanely, for the sex trade. Pity the protestors don’t get out of their selfish senseless little worlds and protest current slavery, and demand that it stop.
Terry McNulty
Sweet Home