These are among the plaques to be removed from the Bunker Hill Monument as part of President Trump's desire to make sure nothing negative appears about the United States. The removal was triggered by a woman who complained that a statement about women's suffrage was woke.
The quotes refer to slavery, war, women's suffrage, etc.
Not knowing the truth about the past is dangerous for a democracy. A recent example is the alleged reason for the Iran War. Trump wants Iran to agree to comply to things that they already agreed to and were in a treaty that he annulled. Statements that Iranians hate Americans never include the reasons why.
A friend who moved to Mexico had a son who studied the Spanish-American War in the US and Mexico. He came home to tell his mother, "Mom, they were two different wars."
In Texas where my visitor husband was heard calling January 6th an insurrection belligerently challenged him calling it a demonstration. I must have watched the insurrection on news stations from Switzerland, France, England and Germany news. That was no demonstration. Nor was it a tour as some have claimed.
At University, a Brit taught the causes of the American Revolution from England's perspective. Like my friend's son said, it was a different revolution.
I find many Americans are not aware of some of the most important events in their history. Maybe they don't even know about Bunker Hill. Probably most of them will not go to Bunker Hill in Boston, but if they do, thanks to President Trump they will be denied a part of their history. That's just plain wrong.
Try an experiment. Ask your friends, colleagues about Bunker Hill. Pick some other things from America's past like the Jay Treaty. What was a Democrat-Republican Party and who founded it. Or pick any other brick in the wall of American history and see if they know.
Erasing history verbally doesn't make it go away. The events still happened.
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