This is rather sad that short-sighted politicians (liberal or conservative) must do this to pieces of history. As a history major it grieves me to see wanton destruction of history. It is equivalent to the first emperor of China burning the books, to the Nazis burning books. I'd settle for the less savory method of deactivating them and putting them in a museum. Historical items should not be destroyed/melted into slag.
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Michael
Nos morituri te salutant - Supposed saying of the gladiators to the emperor ('We, who are about to die, salute you.')
'We are the lantern bearers, my friend; for us to keep something burning, to carry what light we can forward into the darkness and the wind' - From Rosemary Sutcliff's The Lantern Bearers
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