{"id":85136,"date":"2019-02-21T13:48:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T17:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=85136"},"modified":"2019-02-21T13:48:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T17:48:28","slug":"airborne-museums-statue-vandalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=85136","title":{"rendered":"Airborne Museum’s Statue Vandalized"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A screen capture of Major General William C. Lee Museum’s Facebook post related to the vandalism. (Charlotte Observer photo).<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

William C. Lee Airborne Museum officials suspect that people burned their statue under the assumption that it was a statue of General Robert E. Lee.<\/p>\n

The museum’s suspicions are reasonable, given what TAH regulars already suspect.<\/p>\n

Many on the left don’t know what they’re protesting. In this scenario, a person, or a group of people, with “Civil War Statue Bad” running through their heads, saw the name “Lee” on a military statue. “Civil War Statue Bad” became “Monument must be destroyed”.<\/p>\n

Result? A statue, representing a man with the last name “Lee,” suffers vandalism.<\/p>\n

One doesn’t even have to be in the military to know that there’s a difference, a big difference. We’ve seen portraits of General Robert E. Lee in high school history books. A quick glance would’ve shown a difference with the uniform worn.<\/p>\n

This specific statue is wearing a uniform worn in the 20th Century. It doesn’t look like it’s sporting a beard either.<\/p>\n

Perhaps a trend of the statues that were toppled in the past could’ve given the perpetrators a hint to leave this statue alone. Those toppled statues shared certain features.\u00a0 This isn’t advocating for the toppling or vandalizing of statues that belong to others.<\/p>\n

Monuments like these, related to significant events and accomplishments, should be preserved as an additional way of saying, “These people were real, the people that built this had a reason for standing it up, a reason related to the events of his or her time, etc.”<\/p>\n

It puts a face, a human story, to our history. Good, bad, and ugly.<\/p>\n

Ironically, the folks that did this ended up making another kind of statement. The left side of the statue got burned, and was damaged. Just like how the radical left in this country is “damaged”, damaged enough to convert their misguided philosophy into misguided actions. See the “El Dorado” type investigations taking place in D.C.<\/p>\n

From the Charlotte Observer:<\/span><\/p>\n

Major General William C Lee Airborne Museum<\/b><\/p>\n

Thursday evening about 2200 hours someone poured a flammable liquid over the white marble statue of Lee and set it on fire. The local fire department put out the flames but the damage is done. It scorched the statue mostly on the left side. You can see the burn marks in the marble where the jerk placed the remainder of the fuel container on the platform. The cleaning and repair possibilities process will begin soon. Local security cameras will be reviewed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thanks to AnotherPat for posting about this on the Midweek Open Thread. You can read more on the Charlotte Observer<\/a> and Newsweek<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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