Our history as americans is ver if not monumentally important to preserve and protect. We see countless times some people want to write over or even cover up what are and should be important historical facts about the usa and its people’s history. Protecting our story is very important to all of us.
Key Takeaways:
- Both the North and the South are dotted with huge chunks of granite as memorials to those who died in a bloody civil war.
- Southerners would have dishonored their family name had they not joined the military and protected their homeland.
- These monuments were sponsored by women who did not want their husbands, sons, fathers and brothers to be forgotten, many of them died on the battlefield and were buried in mass, unmarked graves.
“Southerners would have dishonored their family name had they not joined the military and protected their homeland.”
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