So, if a man says "I think it well, moreover, not to keep open the sores of war, but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife and to commit to oblivion the feelings it engendered" and we think it is a wise sentiment, then to erect a statue of him would be _______________.
IOW, does the existence of a statue of Robert E. Lee endorse civil war and strife, or does it commemorate his surrender, or can it memorialize the course of his life and the conclusions he embraced? I don't think it's all so cut-n-dried. Facts of history exist in the context of all the rest of it.
