Ataturk commemorated the Australian dead of the Gallipoli campaign at an Australian cemetery in Turkey in a speech where he said:
You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours
The point being that those who actually do the fighting and dying do not usually bear a generations-spanning grudge against their enemy. The push to purge Confederate memorials from public spaces is a wholly current fashion, driven almost entirely by people who have never served a day in uniform in their lives and probably look down on those who do.
Regardless of the merit of the individual being honored by their substitute monuments, it doesn't justify removing existing memorials, particularly when the soldiers who would have the most right to ask for their removal have historically been OK with them.
The push to purge Confederate memorials from public spaces is a wholly current fashion, driven almost entirely by people who have never served a day in uniform in their lives and probably look down on those who do.
Even more so, its driven almost entirely on extreme hatred of the people who live in these areas. The media over the decades has bred a nearly genocidal hatred of any white southerner in most of the Left (and truly most of the world), to a point where anything they like is considered evil and to be hated.
The Confederacy just has the thin veneer of "racism" that they don't even have to hold back their raw rage in attacking it.
Did you know that there is a monument dedicated to German POWs in the Chattanooga, TN national cemetery? https://ncagermanpows.omeka.net/items/browse?tags=chattanooga
Ataturk commemorated the Australian dead of the Gallipoli campaign at an Australian cemetery in Turkey in a speech where he said:
https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/encyclopedia/ataturk
The point being that those who actually do the fighting and dying do not usually bear a generations-spanning grudge against their enemy. The push to purge Confederate memorials from public spaces is a wholly current fashion, driven almost entirely by people who have never served a day in uniform in their lives and probably look down on those who do.
Regardless of the merit of the individual being honored by their substitute monuments, it doesn't justify removing existing memorials, particularly when the soldiers who would have the most right to ask for their removal have historically been OK with them.
Even more so, its driven almost entirely on extreme hatred of the people who live in these areas. The media over the decades has bred a nearly genocidal hatred of any white southerner in most of the Left (and truly most of the world), to a point where anything they like is considered evil and to be hated.
The Confederacy just has the thin veneer of "racism" that they don't even have to hold back their raw rage in attacking it.
Of course. Removing Confederate War memorials is purely a political move that placates the woke mob.