re: Does anybody really care about these statues?

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99% of the Confederate monuments were erected to recognize and memorialize the soldiers that fought and served in the war. The Soldiers.

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On what do you base your confidence in this intention? The confederate monuments in question were commissioned en masse during the Jim Crow era, decades after the war, in the midst of an organized movement to cast the confederacy in a whitewashed light. The earliest memorials, the ones most likely to have been in dedication to soldiers, were erected in cemeteries and not outside of courthouses.