Trump’s Interior Department Won’t Be Removing Confederate Monuments From Civil War Battlefields

Daily Caller ^ | 8/16/2016 | MICHAEL BASTASCH

[raiderboy]

The Interior Department won’t be removing monuments to Confederate soldiers at national battlefields that are “an important part of our country’s history,” according to a spokesman.

“The National Park Service is committed to safeguarding these memorials while simultaneously educating visitors holistically and objectively about the actions, motivations and causes of the soldiers and states they commemorate,” spokesman Jeremy Barnum told E&E News.

[raiderboy]

This is so wonderful. We just keep winning.

[snarkytart]

Well I would hope so.

[Uncle Sam 911]

Excellent!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Trump, you big racist meany!

[SkyPilot]

In other news, Trump won't allow the books in the Library of Congress to be burned, won't allow the re-naming of our capital from Washington D.C. to Farrakhan D.C., and won't allow the Jefferson Memorial to be bulldozed by Black Lives Matter criminals.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Thank you...

[manc]

Good

[American Infidel]

I hope he holds fast here. The media and the left smell blood, so they will use this perceived weak point in Trump's presidency to go full bore on this dismantling of history crusade they are on right now.

Not that anyone will ask this of the dems, but if removing all of these confederate symbols from Federal property is so important; why wasn't it done under Obama?

[American Infidel]

It’s a battlefield. This implies that there was more than one side involved. If you remove every vestige of one side of the battle, then you have essentially wiped away the event itself as if it never happened. We are on a slippery slope with this nonsense.

[DOC44]

I know a couple of Confederate Battle Grounds they don’t want to mess with.

[fivecatsandadog]

You can’t erase history. Whats next - executions for people who refuse to forget the facts?

[Guenevere]

God bless President Trump

[Moonman62]

When are they going to remove the Confederate monuments from Chicago so there will finally be peace?

[Moonman62]

The Interior Department won’t be removing monuments to Confederate soldiers at national battlefields that are “an important part of our country’s history,” according to a spokesman.

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That must be why Obama didn’t remove them.

[Leaning Right]

> That must be why Obama didn’t remove them. <

Obama didn’t remove those Confederate monuments because the thought didn’t occur to him. And nobody brought it up. If he (or Hillary) were president today, those monuments would be in storage by now.

[healy61]

Don’t be fooled. Leaving democrat monuments up at National parks is about tourism dollars. Who, of southern heritage, would visit Gettysburg to see monuments of republicans of the civil war?

[ColdOne]

Destruction of our history ping list. I think this will be

a high volume ping list. Please let me know if you want on

or off the list.

[Ciexyz]

Here’s raising a toast in honor of the soldiers of both sides of that momentous conflict, the Civil War/War Between the States. May they rest in peace in graves that will never be desecrated.

[Ciexyz]

ping me. please.