Lol, ya'll need to get a room... or a cage fight...
Lol, ya'll need to get a room... or a cage fight...
Was kinda looking forward to a cage fight...Nah, this is fun. Just waiting on the right response.
They (the monuments) honor a very unique reconciliation between two sides who fought a horrible and very destructive war, but chose not to regard each other as enemies afterward. That reconciliation prevented the endless hatred and war we see in many other parts of the world.
At the end of Band of Brothers a German colonel surrenders to Major Winters, and offers his sidearm. Winters refuses it and tells him he may keep his weapon. That symbolized an incredible moment between two men who would have killed each other just days earlier; it was a declaration that they were no longer enemies, and could treat each other as honorable men. That respect may have prevented a third war between America and Germany, just as the confederate statues exemplify the reconciliation that made the United States one nation again after the Civil War.
Best quote I've seen on this subject, "only this country would be stupid enough to start a civil war over statues from the last civil war".
Who are you talking about? I don't see anything!
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