I visited several civil war battlefields in 2013. After reflecting on the many field monuments today, I feel like many Americans that they are not glorifications of causes but of men giving up their lives or enduring awful injuries for their fellow men. I visited Vimy Ridge in France in 2010. I am a Canadian whose Uncle's unit was part of a famous Canadian force who took that ridge in April 1917. On the top is a large monument of a weeping " Mother Canada " which is not glorifying a victory but loss of her sons and daughters. I believe that Adolph Hitler ordered no defacing of that monument in WWIl for the reason that it did not glorify the victory, only sadness and courage.
I understand monuments away from the battlefields are offensive to many people but hope those battlefields are deemed sacred places where all Americans who died there rest in peace not anger.
I understand monuments away from the battlefields are offensive to many people but hope those battlefields are deemed sacred places where all Americans who died there rest in peace not anger.