Ralph Peters on Fight over Monuments: Learn About the Facts Before You Lecture Us on It

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PETERS: "Well that’s absolutely true. And although it’s technically a novel, it’s very accurate. It’s a fun way to learn your history in sort of a narrative form. But the important thing in this debate about confederate statues, and I’m a born Yankee, I try to see through the eyes of the people of the time. And they were complex human beings. It wasn’t as no pun intended, black and white as we make it out to be. So, I wish people on both the far left and the extreme right would just learn the facts; learn about the Civil War before you lecture us all on it."