Time Capsule Found Under Robert E. Lee Statue Contained Books, Money And Ammunition

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Time Capsule Found Under Robert E. Lee Statue Contained Books, Money And Ammunition

[barbaradobner]

Gosh, I wished, I could search trough this Box and see everything for myself. Reading trough those Journals and Newspapers, touching all the other finds. For me it would literally be traveling back in time.

[Believebible]

What a waste of my time she didn’t say anything!!! thanks a lot!!!

[SlantedLand]

They sent the wrong person to be interviewed. "I'm not sure there was anything surprising in there." Really, nothing? No detailed descriptions and she was completely uninterested in the contents. Bruh, I'm more interested than blue-hair lady and I'm just sitting on my couch.

[frankthecat]

At this point I wouldn’t believe nbc if they said the sky was blue.

[jsp]

They removed the statue and it did absolutely nothing.

[jimcrawford]

A "Historian" claims the time capsule is inaccurate to the History everybody knows? The people who lived it was wrong? Thank God I skipped college .

[wenettehamilton]

Quit lies and buying time to spin lies, show them to us, you don't own them they belong to all of us

[skirtonbear]

Those boxes were small. How long does it take for “authorities” to make a list of the items?

[sminthian]

"They will find a final home"
The way things are going, she probably means it's all going in an incinerator...

[jamesdean]

The statue wasn't controversial it was history and made a statement that will likely be forgotten now by its removal and there was also a reason that time capsule had ammo in it that's also a statement that stands true today

[ljs]

Statue shouldn’t have been taken down !!!

[rudiruttger]

The dishonorable means by which this time capsule was pilfered will always be a stain in the historical record.

[ChicoTheMan]

They knew back then the statue would get taken down.

[wenettehamilton]

And your saying they don't reflect history, what, they are history. You are all liars

[MrTrax]

Rest in peace General Lee. Thank you for your service.

[wenettehamilton]

Will we the people ever get to see and read the letters and items

[_HMCB_]

Is it asking too much to actually show each item one by one? 🤷🏽

[williamm]

We will never know the true contents of that capsule

[MrDXRamirez]

They must have known two decades after the Civil War, that the statues would come down in the future to have placed a time capsule in many of them that were subsequently not water tight. It seems the time capsule was more important than the statues or the statues were markers.

[maltedmilk]

Wow! It's almost Criminal that they didn't have that time capsule opened by experts in the field instead of this hack job