Take down the monuments

All over America, war memorials manifest and encourage pride in Americans who fought obediently in every stupid and even vicious war the elites have wished on us.

Filial piety properly motivates headstones for our fathers who died in battle, whether admirably, tragically, or even shamefully.

But for the sake of truth, for the sake of our contemporaries, and for the sake of those to come, we ought not to be commemorating as though with pride wars we can only regret, and much less those we must regret with shame.

Since the American Revolution not a single war the US has fought was necessary and some have been shameful.

Even the Revolution is questionable.

Only candor can give any hope that our future will not resemble our bellicose past.

And monuments to past wars all over the country undermine and contradict that candor.

Take down the monuments.

If the feeling cannot be avoided that some form of public commemoration is necessary let the Holocaust Museum provide the model.

But it’s best to skip it, altogether.