As monuments to the Confederacy are removed, new ones are erected

[struggle4progress]

Jenny Jarvie

... the Confederate Memorial of the Wind .. went up on a grassy half-acre. A total of 13 concrete columns .. rise from a circular concrete pedestal. Eventually it will be surrounded by .. 40 poles topped with .. battle flags ...

In South Carolina last month, a granite monument .. was unveiled on a spot where Civil War enthusiasts gather each year to reenact the Battle of Aiken. In Alabama in August, a gray stone memorial was dedicated in a private .. park to unknown Confederate soldiers. In Georgia last year, a black marble obelisk was erected on public land in the mountain town of Dahlonega in memory of the county’s nearly 1,200 Confederate veterans.

... more than 30 monuments and symbols to the Confederacy have been dedicated or rededicated since 2000 ...

"They continue to believe in the sort of version of history that mythologizes the Confederacy and its heroes, but it's so obvious it's disingenuous," she said. "They’re not honoring history; they’re commemorating the principles and objectives of the war" ...

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-new-confederate-memorials-20171020-story.html

[greymattermom]

1. The Confederacy won't be forgotten

but the monuments should be something like the Vietnam memorial in Washington. It should remember all who were lost on both sides without glorifying them, and it should remind people of the vast numbers of soldiers who died. We don't want to do this again. Forgetting this isn't possible, so why force people to try?

[Mariana]

2. No one's trying to "force people to try" to forget the Confederacy.

Sorry, but that's a ridiculous argument. There aren't many monuments to Nazis in public places in the United States. Does that mean anyone is "forcing people to try" to forget that there were Nazis? Of course not.