King Solomon, Pondering a Civil War Statue Solution

Should we ponder Representative Nancy Pelosi’s request to remove all Confederate Civil War statues in Washington in relation to the words of King Solomon, Abraham Lincoln, and Jude?

Representative Nancy Pelosi

“Pelosi said the statues in the Capitol should “embody our highest ideals as Americans, expressing who we are and who we aspire to be as a nation.” (Source HERE)

King Solomon

No one remembers the former generations, and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them. (Ecclesiastes 1:11)

There is no remembrance of former things,…. Which is the reason why some things that are really old are thought to be new; because either the memories of men fail them, they do not remember the customs and usages which were in the former part of their own lives, now grown old; or they are ignorant of what were in ages past, through want of history, or defect in it; either they have no history at all, or what they have is false; or if true, as there is very little that is so, it is very deficient; and, among the many things that have been, very few are transmitted to posterity, so that the memory of things is lost; therefore who can say with certainty of anything, this is new, and was never known in the world before? and the same for the future will be the case of present things; (Source HERE)

Abraham Lincoln,  

“The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.” (Source Gettysburg Address HERE)

In My Opinion

I believe the best thing to do to solve the statue controversy is to place a plaque on every Civil War Statue for every onlooker to ponder.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address

You Decide, If…..

Congress decides to remove the statues, should we next burn all the Civil War History Books?

Or should we take the advice of Jude in this song verse to accommodate, Her, (Nancy Pelosi and the Confederate Civil War Statues.)

[Verse 6]
Hey Jude, don’t make it bad
Take a sad song and make it better
Remember to let her under your skin
Then you’ll begin to make it
Better better better better better better, oh

[Outro]
Na na na na na, na na na, hey Jude
Na na na na na, na na na, hey Jude…

(Source HERE)

Regards and goodwill blogging.