Painful to watch

It's becoming more and more painful to watch the statues of our history be taken down. The Civil War was almost 200 years ago and for 200 years many generations of descendants from slaves and Confederates have revered the statues as part of our history. They feel they were a reminder of where the country once was and shows us how far we have come. So why is this new generation of people, almost 200 years later , all of a sudden feeling pain from the presence of these statues. Once they come down they don't mean the same. What's next do we pack up our families and zip them off to Mount Rushmore , Stone Mountain or to the battlefields in Williamsburg and Fredericksburg Virginia , because they may not be there in the future. Or maybe somebody will come up with some stupid idea like putting Martin Luther King and Barack Obama on Mount Rushmore instead and getting rid of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. We are Americans. This is our history. Embrace it. Deal with it. I can't imagine visiting Washington DC and having the Washington Monument , the Jefferson Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial all gone. Also, in our US Capitol every state can put up two monuments . So now they're compiling a list of which ones should be taken down. It has to stop.