Letter: Statue honors veterans

Published 9:10 pm Monday, October 2, 2017

Ever since I saw this statue as a child, I thought it was a guardian angel. Later, knowing it was for the Confederate dead, I still saw no offense.

In this age of protesting anything that offends, why are we jumping on the bandwagon? Who is pushing so hard and why? Saying it should be in a museum is wrong. It is a landmark and many are in parks ( a natural museum).

Everyone today knows slavery was horrible. How does destroying statues help? Does offense end when every scrap of history is erased?

I am offended by statues of General Sherman. He committed war crimes against women and children in the South. I wouldn’t demand his statues to come down, though. Most Southern soldiers never owned a slave. They died in a war they didn’t want. This statue is for war veterans. Please learn from history before it’s too late.

— Sue Shelton

Kannapolis