How is taking a statue down pretending the civil war never happened? Most of those statues weren't even put up at the time but decades after the c.w., at times of racial unrest; it was less about honoring than in telling blacks, you need to be kept in your place. Never understood this glorification of what they call the "war between the states" in the south; they lost. When I was in high school a German exchange student asked why there were confederate statues, since they lost the war. I had no idea. We asked my father, and he said people that supported that kind of stuff just weren't very smart. Makes me think of what some folks tell Clinton supporters: "You lost. Get over it." Clearly, many of them still haven't. Embarrassing.