This is in response to the Politics as Usual column entitled \u201cIt isn\u2019t just a statue\u201d (Thursday, August 17).
\nContrary to the position taken by the writer that the removal of the statue of General Robert E. Lee \u201cshould have happened quite some time ago\u201d, I contend that the removing of this statue and related symbols is the attempt to erase history.
\nThey represent history whether people like the historical facts or not.
\nHundreds of years ago there were beliefs and battles that were part of that era.
\nWe should view statues and symbols in the context of what society believed
\nat that time and not by today\u2019s standards.
\nThis allows for discussion and the opportunity to learn about history as well as appreciate where we are today.
\nSir Winston Churchill stated \u201ca nation that forgets its past has no future\u201d which applies today.
\nDon\u2019t whitewash history by
\nremoving statues, you confront it.<\/p>\n
Shelley Wister This is in response to the Politics as Usual column entitled \u201cIt isn\u2019t just a statue\u201d (Thursday, August 17). Contrary to the position taken by the writer that the removal of the statue of General Robert E. Lee \u201cshould have happened quite some time ago\u201d, I contend that the removing of this statue and related […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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