{"id":11003,"date":"2017-08-16T13:29:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T18:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=11003"},"modified":"2017-08-16T13:29:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T18:29:27","slug":"remembering-the-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/08\/16\/remembering-the-differences\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering The Differences"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greg Fallis discusses<\/a> the differences between statues and memorials:<\/p>\n

So then, let\u2019s go ahead and talk about war and statues of Confederate generals and war memorials and what should be done with them. Let\u2019s start with this: when it comes to war, there are essentially three groups of people involved. There are the politicians who declare war, who develop the policies of war, who determine the political goals of war. There are the officer classes, who are in charge of actually prosecuting the war based on the politician\u2019s policies and goals, who determine the strategies used by the armies and the broad range of tactics to fight the battles. And then there are the poor bastards who fight the war \u2014 the ordinary people who have nothing to do with strategies, who have little or no voice in the politics, but who do the fighting and the killing and the dying. This is true of all wars in all the nations of the world over the entire scope of history.<\/p>\n

Why is that important? Because it\u2019s important to distinguish between statues and memorials. Statues are built to honor the specific politicians and the senior officers who start the wars and prosecute them. Memorials, on the other hand, are generally built to honor the nameless mass of soldiers who get mutilated or killed fighting those wars.<\/p>\n

For the last several years there\u2019s been a movement to remove and\/or destroy statues honoring Confederate politicians and military officers. Over\u00a0the last few days we\u2019ve seen that notion expand to include essentially\u00a0all<\/em> symbols of the Confederacy. Statues, memorials, flags \u2014 get rid of them all.<\/p>\n

I totally understand that feeling. I just disagree with it. Well, I disagree with chunks of it. I have no problem with removing the statues of Confederate leaders. I don\u2019t want to see them destroyed, but I think it\u2019s a fine idea to remove them from public land and place them either in storage or in museums. Destroying statues of people we dislike or whose beliefs we disagree with \u2014 that\u2019s what ISIS does. It\u2019s vengeful, it\u2019s small-minded, and at heart it\u2019s an attempt to color over the past. Remove them, and if they must be displayed, display them with context.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Removal into storage and destruction are more or less the same thing – if done in totality. Putting representative statues in museums, with explanations of the side they represented and why they are no longer displayed, seems most appropriate.<\/p>\n

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Greg Fallis discusses the differences between statues and memorials: So then, let\u2019s go ahead and talk about war and statues of Confederate generals and war memorials and what should be done with them. Let\u2019s start with this: when it comes to war, there are essentially three groups of people involved. \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11004,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11003\/revisions\/11004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}