re: Trump: USA to start building monuments to our heroes again

You really need to read a history book

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I should ask you the same question. Let’s see your mental gymnastics to pretend the Civil War was not about preserving slavery. Go for it

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It was part of it, not the most important. They hide information like that in books.
I wouldn't expect you to know much about it.

and Ft Johnson (or whatever it is now) back to Ft Polk.

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Let’s see your mental gymnastics to pretend the Civil War was not about preserving slavery. Go for it.

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You stupid bitch. Why did Lincoln only outlaw slavery in areas that were in rebellion? Why didnt he outlaw it in Kentucky, Missouri or Maryland? Why did he not outlaw it in occupied areas of the South, like parts of Louisiana? That's right, he couldn't outlaw it in the US. At the time it was guaranteed. And he knew it. It took an amendment to outlaw it after the war. So why would the South leave to protect an institution that Lincoln could not ban? He admitted as much.

The South's greatest argument regarding slavery at the outbreak of the war was not that slavery could be abolished where it existed but the fact that it would be banned into any new territory. Slaves were property and the South argued that the Constitution guaranteed property rights and the ability to transport that property into any territory.

“As for the South, it is enough to say that perhaps eighty per cent. of her armies were neither slave-holders, nor had the remotest interest in the institution. No other proof, however, is needed than the undeniable fact that at any period of the war from its beginning to near its close the South could have saved slavery by simply laying down its arms and returning to the Union.”
Major General John B. Gordon, from his book, Causes of the Civil War.

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Why should he erect monuments to soldiers of a different country against which the U.S. was at war?

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It’s not as clear cut as your question suggests.

Lincoln never acknowledged the South was a country. He put down a “rebellion”.

In the treaty ending The War of Independence, The Revolutionary War, The Colonial Rebellion, The King of England had recognized as distinct sovereign political entities-“countries”-both the individual States and those States considered collectively as the “United” States of America.

That’s why Lee could, in good conscience, resign his commission in the U.S. Army saying sincerely he refused to take up the sword against his native “country” Virginia.

Most Confederate generals, politicians, and civilians shared Lee’s understanding that their native soil was their “country” to which they owed their allegiance. They viewed themselves as the Constitutionally grounded patriots and federal troops as un-Constitutional aggressors and invaders enforcing the will of a tyrant.

Erasing history and tearing down statues of participants of historically significant events is Talibanesque and should be resisted at all times.