If "beautiful" public statues of traitors are necessary to "preserve our history",

[Atticus]

where can I visit---and "study"---the statues of Benedict Arnold or Aaron Burr? How about Tokyo Rose or Aldrich Ames? Robert Hanssen? Surely there's a statue of the Rosenbergs somewhere.

Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, et al, were TRAITORS to the United States of America and fought to preserve their perceived "right" to own other human beings. But, hey, if public statues of traitors is now all the rage according to Trump, Bannon and company, then how about my list? Where are those statues?

[L. Coyote]

1. .... maybe we should tell more people about books and teach them to read too.

Just sayin' ... look at the education level of those who proclaim they need statues to know history and ask them if they can read the plaques.
Oh yeah, and ask them to volunteer for DNA testing.

[Decoy of Fenris]

2. Burr and Arnold both have monuments, for what that's worth.

Burr is in the Museum of National Finance. Arnold has the Boot Monument in Saratoga.

Don't know about the others, though. I know the Rosenbergs have a memorial in Havana, Cuba, and Tokyo Rose was less a person and more an ephemeral "They", implying any English speaker who broadcast Japanese propaganda.

Hell, we even have memorials of Stalin and Lenin dotted around the states.

[MLAA]

3. Excellent post!

[ret5hd]

4. Why, they should erect a statue of Jane Fonda!!!

(FWIW, I do not think Jane Fonda was a traitor. But they do.)

[LeftInTX]

5. Put a Jane Fonda statue next to every Confederate statue!