Thursday, February 21, 2019

Ignorant bastards

"‘Jerk punks’ torched a statue of General Lee. It honors a WWII veteran, not the Confederate leader."
Just outside downtown Dunn, N.C., a historic antebellum-style house honors Maj. Gen. William C. Lee, a hometown hero often described as the father of the U.S. Army’s airborne infantry. The World War II veteran served as the first commanding general for the 101st Airborne Division, nicknamed the “Screaming Eagles,” and helped plan the Allied forces’ D-Day invasion of Normandy.

He’s a widely respected, if somewhat obscure, military figure — which is why, after anonymous vandals attempted to torch a statue of him last week, museum officials concluded it had been a case of mistaken identity. They suspect that the perpetrators thought they were burning a memorial to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Which, in my opinion, wouldn't have made the deed any more acceptable. It's just that there's an added layer of imbecility in not being able to distinguish between the two.

4 comments:

RebeccaH said...

Don't you just love the state of American education these days?

Paco said...

No doubt they'll go on to college, where they'll learn to tell which statues they're supposed to deface.

Steve Skubinna said...

Remember last year, when the statue of Jean of Arc in New Orleans was defaced? Because, hey, statues bad, mmm'kay?

TEAR DOWN ALL THE THINGS!!!!

Spiny Norman said...

...where they'll learn to tell which statues they're supposed to deface.

That's an assumption I'm not willing to make.