Article snippet: White House chief of staff Marine Corps general, did not elaborate on how the Civil War could have been prevented through compromise. His comments echoed those of President Donald Trump, who has pushed back against the removal of Confederate monuments, including those honoring Lee. “This week it's Robert E. Lee. I noticed that Stonewall Jackson is coming down. I wonder, is it George Washington next week, and is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You know, you really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop?” Trump said in a August. That statement came in the wake of an outbreak of violence in Charlottesville, Virginia — which began in protest of the planned removal of a Lee monument — that left one person dead and 19 others injured after a car ramming. Police arrested James Alex Fields, 20, and charged him with second-degree murder in the attack. Major cities and institutions across the country have opted to remove or relocate Confederate statues this year, with many calling them symbols of modern white supremacy and neo-Nazism. In August the University of Texas at Austin, for example, said it would remove statues of Lee and three other Confederate generals because they were erected during the period of segregation and “represent the subjugation of African-Americans.” Link to the full article to read more