Leave the Confederate monuments where they are. If you remove them, you would only be giving in to the demands of terrorizing criminals and ignorant fools trying to whitewash history. Robert E. Lee, in particular, was a good, honorable, Christian man who didn't even support slavery. Lee fought for his home state of Virginia at a time when their home state meant more than the country as whole. Only after the Civil War did the country actually become the United States of America. These Confederate soldiers are federally recognized U.S. war veterans. They should be honored as such. It would be nice to walk up and view all these works of art on Monument Avenue. However, these monuments should be protected from lowlife vandals.