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Lt Col Charlie Brown
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Don't deny our history. Let's teach it, study it, debate the positions and learn something
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SSG Robert Mark Odom
SSG Robert Mark Odom
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When you say 'our history' could you be a little bit more specific please.
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SSG Orderly Room Ncoic
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SSG Robert Mark Odom - it seems implied tasks are hard.
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SPC Kevin Ford
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As LTC Eugene Chu gave an example of in Georgia, the plaques around these monuments should be revised to reflect who these people actually were and why the monuments were erected to "whitewash" what they did.

Leaving these monuments up in a way that makes them look like heros instead of the racist slaver traitors they were is the problem with re-writing or forgetting history. These were not good people fighting for a good cause. They were the Nazis of their day.
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LTC Eugene Chu
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Sidebar topic is Germany and Nazi history. Although Deutschland does include its painful past, it does so in a balanced manner. It dos not have statues or monuments celebrating its activities during World War 2.

https://www.inquirer.com/philly/opinion/commentary/charlottesville-nazis-germany-communists-monuments-trump-20170817.html
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SSG Robert Mark Odom
SSG Robert Mark Odom
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Thanks for commenting sir. Have a fantastic day!
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SSG Orderly Room Ncoic
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Like all it took was a quick google search and MSgt David Hoffman - is correct, their is little correlation between the civil war and the nazis.

http://www.thirdreichruins.com/memorials.htm
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MAJ Bryan Zeski
MAJ Bryan Zeski
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SSG (Join to see) - I think the point was that the Nazis were bad and did bad things for bad reasons. And so was the Confederacy.
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MAJ Bryan Zeski - or it's a dreadful attempt at making it a moral equivalency, like you so elegantly put it. The "bad" (and the reason it's "bad" is because a majority of the world still practiced slavery, but, lets just pretend the US was the only country that practiced slavery in 1860) thing the Confederacy did pales in comparison to the Nazis.
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