The statue of Theodore Roosevelt flanked by a Native American and a African has been faraway from the Museum of Pure Historical past grounds.
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The Difficulty: The removing of a Theodore Roosevelt statue from the Museum of Pure Historical past grounds.
Out of all of the attainable programs of motion, the removing of the Theodore Roosevelt statue exterior the Museum of Pure Historical past will do nothing to advance the causes of liberty, fairness and justice (“Teddy statue is ‘historical past,’ ” Jan. 20).
On the finish of the day, Roosevelt represents our republic. When Congress did not muster the political wherewithal to ship the US Navy all over the world, Roosevelt pressured them to summon the intestinal fortitude to lift our nation to new ranges of maritime mastery.
If we're to fight Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, who rhetorically and militarily mock us daily, we should keep in mind leaders who superior insurance policies that set America on the trail to efficiently defeat dictatorship, the plague of political polarization and finally the ills of ignorance.
Henry J.H. Wilson
Barrington, Sick.
The statue of Roosevelt will discover a new house in North Dakota, an space that venerates him as a person and as a political chief.
He got here to Medora, ND, after the near-simultaneous deaths of his spouse and mom and ranched within the space.
In appreciation of his deeds, North Dakotans are constructing his presidential library in Medora, an space he cherished.
Fred LaVenuta
Fargo, ND
I'm not a resident of New York Metropolis however have visited regularly as each a vacationer and on enterprise for near 40 years.
There is just one American metropolis that gives the expertise of New York. From tradition to retail, to lovely sunsets and parks, to breathtaking skyscrapers, to world-class artwork and culinary alternatives.
Did New York Metropolis lose its collective thoughts? Town is brazenly sanctioning open drug use and homelessness but eradicating a monument to presidential freedom fighter — for all Individuals — Teddy Roosevelt?
Throughout my first metropolis go to in 1983, it wasn’t the small-time criminals marauding round Occasions Sq. I fondly recall; it was the Statue of Liberty, the Twin Towers remark deck and Teddy Roosevelt proudly welcoming me (a no person from a small city in Massachusetts) to an virtually unrealistically amazing Museum of Pure Historical past.
William Thompson
Melrose, Mass.
The statue of one of many presidents who proudly hails his place on Mount Rushmore was taken away within the night time to be hidden within the nice state of North Dakota.
I reward North Dakotans and their realization that this was one of many best presidents we ever had on this nation.
Nobel Peace Prize winner, secretary of the Navy, New York Metropolis police commissioner and extra.
For the woke to make this hero depart the Museum of Pure Historical past is a tragic state of affairs for each the museum and America.
I truly felt proud to go to with my kids and household. I'll by no means go to or donate once more.
Doc Ludemann
Bridgeport, Conn.
Freedom of expression is a fundamental constructing block of thought. This jogs my memory of the Taliban destroying thousand-year-old carvings.
Eradicating statues, work, and so forth., won't change historical past. It's particularly necessary to protect and defend that which made us what we're as a nation. Stay with it. Study from it. Or stay ignorant.
Thomas Birnbaum
Manhattan
I assume we will all really feel safer now that the statue of Theodore Roosevelt has been faraway from the entrance of the American Museum of Pure Historical past after 80 years.
I discover it unusual, although, that this blow and in opposition to “racism and colonialism” needed to be performed at night time, as has been the case throughout the nation with so many different removals of statues and monuments allegedly honoring “white supremacist” oppression.
You'll assume that the statue’s removing would have been a serious media occasion performed in broad daylight.
How way more of this woke, revisionist assault in opposition to our nationwide heritage are Individuals imagined to tolerate?
Dennis Middlebrooks
Brooklyn
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