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Foundry Workers Melt Down Charlottesville’s Divisive Robert E. Lee Statue (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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Eventually, an artist will be chosen to transform the bronze bars into a public art installation

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[–] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think it's important to remember that Robert E Lee himself wasn't too keen on civil war monuments:

“I think it wiser,” [Robert E Lee] wrote about a proposed Gettysburg memorial in 1869, “…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, to commit to oblivion the feelings engendered.”

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