Will America’s history be rewritten by revisionists?
One hundred fifty years from now, how will the United States be remembered? Will it be remembered for all of its progressive history and innovations, or just by its treatment and extermination of Native American Indians, Japanese internment camps, the thousands of Japanese citizens dead and wounded by our atomic bombs and the thousands of innocent persons annihilated through our various military “operations?”
Will our future elected officials listen only to a boisterous group of malcontents who wish to tear down our American flag and rip out the pole that lofts it? Will there be any organizations like the Sons of Confederate Veterans left to maintain the soldiers’ graves of their ancestors and share their side of America’s history?
Will the final nail of Reconstruction be hammered in not by a Northern force or influence, but by our own elected Southern officials? When future historians speak of the great Southern civilization that once inhabited South Carolina they won’t be speaking about our 21st century historical revisionists.
Richard Rossi, Little River
This story was originally published August 26, 2015 at 4:32 PM with the headline "Will America’s history be rewritten by revisionists?."