Letter: Don’t honor the worst from our past with Confederate monuments

This Wednesday, June 28, 2017, shows statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. As cities across the United States are removing Confederate statues and other symbols, dispensing with what some see as offensive artifacts of a shameful past marked by racism and slavery, Richmond is taking a go-slow approach. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany and the Confederacy all waged war on the United States of America. Do we have monuments honoring Imperial Japan or the Nazis, their ideals or their leaders? The answer seems obvious.

Should we have monuments that honor the Confederacy? Never. They, like the Nazis, were defeated. We may forgive, we…