Letter: A monumental opportunity for education

Since Charlottesville, the debate about Confederate statues has been an ongoing story. John Carlson argues (Aug. 30) for preserving Confederate statues on grounds that doing so is educational for current and future generations. Citing Santayana, he says, “Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.”But what’s truly educational is not the statues themselves but how they’re labeled. In New Orleans, for example, a Battle of Liberty Place monument was erected during