one of the signals that a war is over and peace is achieved is when the defeated enemy is allowed to honor their war dead.

“If the victorious side starts to desecrate their enemies war memorials, it means the war is back on,” he said.

“Look at what happens when divers find a sunken Japanese battleship,” he said.

“They will inform the Japanese government, and they would turn that into a memorial, a gravesite--not allowing anybody near it,” he said. “We don't desecrate those memorials, even though they're a thousand feet underwater.” //

Kennedy said no one was worse to American soldiers than the Japanese soldiers, but Southerners are no longer given the same respect.

“We are American citizens, Americans, descendants of the founding fathers, our heroes cannot be honored, and we're not allowed to honor their graves.” //

Just an old soldier...
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America is turning into one, long Maoist/Communist struggle session. America must be made to hate her past. All evidence of the evil past must be destroyed and defamed. Great American Forts like Bragg, Benning and Hood will be renamed so soldiers who served there will know they served at evil locations for an evil cause. You will be ashamed of your history!
How did America hating leftists get to be in charge of EVERYTHING? //

C. S. P. Schofield anon-055q
19 hours ago
Like you, I have scant patience with the Confederacy and its mythology. But I cannot help but notice that the political party most closely concerned with erasing traces of the Confederacy is the party that supported it. And that that party STILL divides people by race… //

emptypockets
20 hours ago
How very ISIS-like so many in America have become. Destroying art because some don't like what or who it represents or commemorates even though it is true remembrance of our actual history. The Left screeches about how so much of our history hasn't been honest--as they forge ahead destroying bits that don't comport with their delusional dystopian narrative.

Besides, sculptor was a Jewish American so hit them with "ANTI-SEMITES!"

It's a beautiful piece of artistry and workmanship remembering a very unbeautiful part of our history. //

Jerry1955 anon-1etz
15 hours ago
Cutting heads and noses off statues. Blowing up Buddahs. Some create. Some appreciate. Some as are so pitiful they can only destroy. //

laughinglordwithweepingeyes
a day ago
The great conquerors make honorary monuments to the best from their enemies and inspire.

The small-minded conquerors try to pretend they were never threatened by erasing their foe. //

Michael1745
19 hours ago
The tragedy is this is a symbol of America’s national reconciliation. It has nothing to do with the dead institution of slavery or secession. One would think the Army would have more important issues to deal with than promoting hate, division and regional bigotry.

Mike Goff, the prinicpal Deputy Assistant Secretary for nuclear energy at the DOE, shared a long list of reasons why he is more optimistic about the future of nuclear energy than he has been at any time in his 35 year career at national labs and as a direct DOE employee. //

He described his recent appearance at a Congressional hearing where 28 representatives asked questions with none of them asking “why nuclear?” Instead they asked how they could help nuclear, most of them wanted to help nuclear projects move faster. He said that the industry has a great opportunity to prove it can deliver. //

Regarding the operating fleet, he described how the DOE, industry and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) are cooperating to ensure that plants continue to operate safely and reliably. Several have already received subsequent license renewals that allow the plants to operate for up to 80 years, but there is no reason to believe that is the ultimate limit. There is already discussion about the activities needed to enable operation to 100 yrs. //

Then Goff made some statements that noticeably captured audience attention, based on both looking around the room and engaging in a number of conversations after the session. He told us that recent DOE studies show that the US needs 300 GW of total nuclear capacity by 2050. Getting there will require keeping as much of the existing fleet as possible while also building at a rate that exceeds the fastest achieved rate from the 1970s during the period from 2030-2050. //

Jim Schaefer, senior managing director of Guggenheim Partners, provided a strong message about the need for nuclear power for meeting decarbonization goals and the pressing need for the industry to improve its ability to deliver projects on time and on budget.

He leads a team of 100 clean energy-focused bankers that have completed 350 deals during the past 8 years. Most of those deals have been in solar, wind and battery storage. He and his team have realized that those technologies are not sufficient for meeting the goal of decarbonizing the grid. Investors and industry need to reallocate dollars towards clean firm technologies that can work all the time.

They have concluded that there is no doubt that hydrogen has a role; geothermal has a role; but that “advanced reactors are kind of it.” He said “Right now, to me, the greatest demand for any kind of energy product that has ever existed is the future need for advanced reactors.”

He sees growing recognition of this insight among investors, in DC, in the electric utility sector, and in the chemical and oil industries.

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