Especially if you find a tiki torch in your hand, symbolizing the preferred illumination method of a KKK lynch mob. Of course the riot gear you are wearing, and the baton in the other hand, could just be a prudent measure to ensure personal safety.

Had forgotten HG was Thurston Howell III (flashbacks to TH3's youth, right?).

So I have some sympathy for keeping some of those historical figures somewhere in a town, maybe someplace where they are less likely to signal, say, "this is what modern-day Charlottesville is all about. Woohoo!" So maybe total annihiliation of old Confederates isn't necessary. Move them from the town square or a central park to some location that is understood to be an historical park, where both saints and sinners are displayed and put in whatever context suits the viewer.

Especially if you find a tiki torch in your hand, symbolizing the preferred illumination method of a KKK lynch mob. Of course the riot gear you are wearing, and the baton in the other hand, could just be a prudent measure to ensure personal safety.

Had forgotten HG was Thurston Howell III (flashbacks to TH3's youth, right?).

I'd think the appropriate places for Lee and Jackson would be battlefield memorials (along with the generals they fought against) and Confederate cemeteries. For example, statues of Lee and Grant at Appomattox would be appropriate, as would one of Jackson at Chancellorville. I see no reason to commemorate Jefferson Davis although he'd have to be mentioned and have portraits in museums. Nathan Bedford Forrest can go to hell.

It seems rather weird to start knocking down so many Confederate statues all at once, as if they've suddenly been discovered lurking in the bushes and have to be exterminated. It only riles up the alt-right, KKK, whatever you want to call them, giving them excuses to haul out the torches. And they don't have to be publicized every time.

I liked the "photo" on Stephen Colbert's show with a KKK guy in full regalia and "Make America Great Again" on his hood.