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<p>In an Aug. 24 letter to the editor, Mark Kahn presents a revisionist view of the causes of the Civil War in arguing against removal of Confederate &#8220;heroes&#8217;&#8221; statues.</p><p>I have neither space nor time to refute his errors, and the question is rather beside the point. Whatever sparked the war, by the end it was about slavery. It&#8217;s indisputable legacy is the South lost and slavery ended.</p><p>Even if we ignore (which I cannot) the appalling decades of Jim Crow legislation, segregation, lynchings, bombings, etc. &#8212; the &#8220;Southern heritage&#8221; that these statues have come to represent &#8212; their presence is unacceptable.</p><p>Let us merely take Kahn&#8217;s own words: &#8220;What happened 153 years ago cannot be changed.&#8221;</p><p>He &#8212; a self-proclaimed historian &#8212; should know that his heroes violated their oaths &#8220;to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.&#8221;</p><p>Honoring traitors is intolerable. These statues should be removed to museums where the history can be explained.</p><p><strong>Frederick C. Sauls, Ph.D.</strong></p><p>Mountain Top</p><style>
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Your view: Letter writer wrong about Confederate statues