There are still memorials in liberal Germany to their WW II German War Dead.  This is not a matter of nostalgia.  This is a matter of remembering what can happen when there is war.  In St. Louis we disassembled our Confederate memorial and it is now in storage with the Missouri Civil War Museum, to be re-assembled in the proper context.  As for other men such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, they did not fight against our country, but fought to unite it.  Leave their memorials and similar ones alone.  Stop the vandals.