General Lee – To Honor or Not to Honor
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August 21, 2017
It is not a surprise to any American that there are statues coming down all over the south. Why? Is this wrong? Are we really losing our history? So let’s agree that all statues are not the same. For reasons that are not clear there was a statue of Chief Justice Roger Taney in Baltimore. Whether he was a great jurist or not, he wrote the Dred Scott decision. He can never live that down in my opinion. Thankfully, his statue was removed last week. Most of the fuss over statues surrounds Robert E. Lee, the commander of Southern forces during
