Bowdoin College moving Confederate memorial plaque

[struggle4progress]

AP, 12:29 PM

BRUNSWICK, Maine (AP) — Bowdoin College is moving a Confederate memorial plaque from a school lobby ...

... President Clayton Rose announced ... historical artifacts "directly tied to the leadership of a horrible ideology are not meant for a place designed to honor courage, principle, and freedom."

The plaque includes the names of 19 Bowdoin College and Medical School of Maine alumni who fought for the Confederacy ...

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2017/08/19/bowdoin-college-is-moving-confederate-memorial-plague

[Warpy]

1. That's the kind of thing I have trouble with

The Civil War was fought brother against brother and father against son. Once it was over, families and friends found their lives had significant holes where people used to be, some of them fighting for the south. I think plaques like this one are useful to remind people of the utterly vicious nature of any civil war, anywhere, and that the south's secession wasn't a cut and dried issue in the north, where some people felt they had a right to go and fought to help them.

Heroic statues of traitorous leaders and their traitors' flag have to go. However, memorial plaques like this one are a sobering reminder of a truly hideous event in our country's history.

The union was preserved but the cost was horrific, borne by both sides. Slavery was ended, but replaced by Jim Crow and that struggle is still ongoing. No one really won that war, not completely.

[bluedigger]

2. Joshua Chamberlain approves this action.