The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.

Saturday, January 6, 2018

While We're Removing Statues-- Part 3: Germans and Greeks


Statues which might need to be taken down around Philadelphia.

**  WOLFGANG VON GOETHE--  German writer but accused of selling German criminals and political dissidents to British Army during the American Revolution.

**  FRIEDRICH SCHILLER--  Friend of Goethe's.  Guilty by association.

**  ORESTES AND PHYLADES FOUNTAIN--  Greek mythology.  Orestes killed his mother and boyfriend because she had murdered his father and his cousin.  Phylades egged him on to do it.  Do they deserve a statue for that?

**  STEPHEN GIRARD--  Founded a segregated college.

--Old Secesh


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