Can our divided history bring us together?
by By Clarence Page, Tribune Content Agency
Aug 20, 2017
3 minutes
As a late-blooming Civil War buff, I have mixed feelings about the recently renewed national push to remove Confederate monuments across the nation.
On one hand, the removal of hundreds of Confederate and related statues bears a troubling resemblance to efforts by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin or the Islamic State to selectively erase inconvenient history.
But when President Donald Trump decided to weigh in on the side of preserving public Confederate icons as
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