Missing the full story

Now that we are in the process of eliminating virtually everything having to do with the Confederacy, maybe we need to close down the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. After all, Jefferson Davis (president of the Confederate States of America), Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, J.E.B. Stuart, James Longstreet, Richard Ewell, P.G.T. Beauregard, A.P. Hill, Albert Sydney Johnston, Braxton Bragg, Leonidas Polk, and other military leaders of the Confederate states attended that school. Moreover, Robert E. Lee was once superintendent of West Point.

On the other hand, let us not forget that Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, George S. Patton, Douglas MacArthur and Dwight Eisenhower all graduated from West Point. Here is the larger question we need to consider: When are we going to pause for a moment and look at the full story when it comes to the people, places, and events in American history?

Christian Perreiah

Spokane