Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Virginia, melted down. Why?

Bob Greene : A statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville , Virginia , was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997 .

Greene: It was considered worthy of preservation for both its historical significance and artistic value.

He asks: Was this a sign of progress? Or when we decided that we could not have any public acknowledgment of Lee ? Greene: Statues of Lee and anyone like him had to come down, and it was our duty to do so.

Robert E. Lee statue was melted down in secret in secret, in an undisclosed location.

The left-wing activists melted it down in a 2,250-degree furnace, and released a video of it being melted down.

It's not clear if the goal was to move the statue, but to destroy it entirely, and that's what happened.

Ruben Navarrette: The campaign to tear down confederate statues was always, from the very beginning, a proxy in the overall war on American history.

He asks: Why are people in the 2020s more hurt by Civil War memorials than people who lived closer to the Civil War were? He says the city of Richmond maintains a secret, open-air graveyard for statues that were toppled in 2020 .