Marylanders Weigh Removal of Memorials 150 years after Civil War
Posted on September 15, 2015
By Marissa Horn
... “(Soldiers) returned to Maryland without a great amount of animosity toward one another, and neither side cared if the other put up a monument to honor the dead,” said Daniel Carroll Toomey, a historian who has served on the state’s Military Monuments Commission for more than 20 years. “You can’t deny the fact that the South did go to war, but then they got over it -- we got over it 150 years ago” ...
“There is a balance between respecting history and continuing to display items that may be offensive” ...
And the Montgomery County Council also plans to meet Thursday night to decide where to relocate the 102-year-old bronze statue of a Confederate soldier standing next to Rockville’s Red Brick Courthouse ... “We share County Executive Isiah Leggett’s view that the statue does not belong in the center of government outside the courthouse” ...
“I have no desire to remove all Confederate statues and memorials ... Pretending something never happened is not the answer. However, honoring a man who is best known for words that dehumanized an entire race is something I cannot abide” ...
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