Memorial

Watching the riots regarding the removal of the statue of Robert E Lee I am reminded that southern plantation owners were not the only slave owners. Fourteen of the founding fathers, including such notables and Washington and Jefferson, were slave owners. There are many statues of these gentlemen around the country along with many schools honoring their names. Perhaps these should be removed and while we are at it how about all of those crosses on the graves at Arlington and don’t forget in God We Trust on our currency. The list of things that some feel we should change is quite lengthy. Some people feel a compromise position is to transfer Lee’s statue to a Civil War Museum and that could work but it would be impractical to put the Washington Monument or the Jefferson Memorial in a building. Perhaps they are too big to fail!