{"id":3038,"date":"2020-07-08T07:17:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T11:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=3038"},"modified":"2020-07-08T07:17:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T11:17:10","slug":"not-in-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2020\/07\/08\/not-in-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Not in Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2720\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/new-trump-world-cover\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/New-Trump-World-Cover.jpg?fit=211%2C320&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"211,320\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone SE&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1579342707&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.05&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"New Trump World Cover\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/New-Trump-World-Cover.jpg?fit=211%2C320&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/New-Trump-World-Cover.jpg?resize=30%2C46&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2720\" width=\"30\" height=\"46\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/New-Trump-World-Cover.jpg?w=211&amp;ssl=1 211w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/New-Trump-World-Cover.jpg?resize=198%2C300&amp;ssl=1 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 30px) 85vw, 30px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wealthy Chicagoan<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One wealthy man in Chicago had his fortune protected from the Stock Market Crash of 1929.&nbsp;&nbsp;As the economy tanked, many workers lost their jobs.&nbsp;&nbsp;The banks closed, and savings vanished. Thousands of Chicagoans were left without a way to pay the bills, cover the rent, or even buy food.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the wealthy man in Chicago still had money and felt their pain.&nbsp;&nbsp;He opened up a soup kitchen that served thousands perhaps their only meal of the day.&nbsp;&nbsp;He also made sure that clothing stores took care of those who couldn\u2019t afford the literal shirts on their backs.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But there are no statues to this generous and worthy man in Chicago.&nbsp;&nbsp;Despite the lack of city gratitude, we still all know his name, albeit for a somewhat different reason:&nbsp;&nbsp;Al Capone.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His example serves two points.&nbsp;&nbsp;First, it doesn\u2019t take a monument to remember history. Even the most vicious criminal, who used a baseball bat to kill two associates at a dinner, is not forgotten.&nbsp;&nbsp;And second:&nbsp;&nbsp;even evil people sometimes do something worthy of praise.&nbsp;&nbsp;Capone is remembered in Chicago; in fact, he visage is replicated in the wax museum.&nbsp;&nbsp;But he\u2019s not handing out meals.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3039\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2020\/07\/08\/not-in-stone\/capone\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Capone.jpeg?fit=183%2C275&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"183,275\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Capone\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Capone.jpeg?fit=183%2C275&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Capone.jpeg?resize=46%2C69&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3039\" width=\"46\" height=\"69\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Dam Tour&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SnmX4f6VBRw\">The dam video<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Herbert Hoover was a proponent of the Colorado River dam long before he was President of the United States. As Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge\u2019s Secretary of Commerce, he pressed for the structure, both as a water conservation measure, and as a way to control floods in the California valleys where the river flowed.&nbsp;&nbsp;It took nine years, and his election to the Presidency to get it done, as well as complex deals with three states and Mexico for the water rights.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the dam itself took five more years to build, creating Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States (when its full).\u00a0\u00a0Ninety-six men lost their lives in the construction process. When it was completed, Hebert Hoover was out, a failed Presidency in the light of the Great Depression.\u00a0\u00a0The new President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, dedicated the dam on September 30th 1935, with 10,000 spectators there for the ceremony.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But Roosevelt was not interested in honoring his predecessor.\u00a0\u00a0The engineering marvel was called the Boulder Dam for the first twelve years of its existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It wasn\u2019t until FDR was gone, and Republicans gained control of the post-war Congress, that the name was changed to the Hoover Dam.&nbsp;&nbsp;So Hoover\u2019s role wasn\u2019t forgotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Call it What?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3040\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2020\/07\/08\/not-in-stone\/denali\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Denali.jpeg?fit=307%2C164&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"307,164\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Denali\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Denali.jpeg?fit=307%2C164&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Denali.jpeg?resize=92%2C49&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3040\" width=\"92\" height=\"49\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Denali.jpeg?w=307&amp;ssl=1 307w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dahlman.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Denali.jpeg?resize=300%2C160&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 92px) 85vw, 92px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mt. McKinley was the highest peak in North America.&nbsp;&nbsp;While it took until the late 1800\u2019s for humans to know that, it was there for hundreds of thousands of years before.&nbsp;&nbsp;McKinley peaks at 20,310 feet high, and was named in 1896 by a random gold miner who arrived at its base.&nbsp;&nbsp;He liked the Governor of Ohio, a Republican candidate for the Presidency.&nbsp;&nbsp;William McKinley won the election, and the name stuck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it\u2019s the highest mountain in North America, so it\u2019s not like it was \u201cdiscovered\u201d in 1896.&nbsp;&nbsp;The native peoples of Alaska were well aware of the peak that they called Denali.&nbsp;&nbsp;Alaskans wanted to restore the original name to the mountain for decades, but Congress blocked the change. Politics being politics, it shouldn\u2019t surprise anyone that Congressman Ralph Regula of Canton, Ohio led the campaign for \u201cMcKinley\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;President McKinley was a native of Canton; his tomb is located there.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1980 the National Park surrounding the mountain was renamed Denali National Park, but the mountain itself remained Mt. McKinley.&nbsp;&nbsp;It wasn\u2019t until 2015 during the Obama Administration that the name Denali was restored to the mountain itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Erasing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">History wasn\u2019t erased by not placing a statue of Al Capone on the Magnificent Mile or down by the \u201cBean\u201d in Chicago.\u00a0\u00a0And Capone\u2019s good acts could not erase the criminal actions of his life.\u00a0 No one forgot the role that Herbert Hoover played in the building of the dam that now bears his name.\u00a0\u00a0Politics prevented his immediate recognition, but Hoover lived to see his name placed on the dam he was so instrumental in developing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the almost random naming of a mountain in Alaska for the Governor of Ohio running for President took over a hundred years to undo.\u00a0\u00a0But today, it is the ancestral name of Denali now graces the maps, the Park, and the Mountain itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who Writes Your Story<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(<em>Hamilton<\/em>, of course)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Names change, and monuments and statues go up and come down.&nbsp;&nbsp;They are not history:&nbsp;&nbsp;they symbolize a view of history.&nbsp;&nbsp;That\u2019s why it is perfectly appropriate to take a statue of Robert E. Lee down in Richmond, while one remains on Seminary Ridge at Gettysburg.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s not erasing history, in fact, its laying history bare for all to see.&nbsp;&nbsp;Lee was a fine soldier, and an honorable man.&nbsp;&nbsp;But, as modern day General Stanley McChrystal laid out in his essay explaining his own changing view of the Confederate general:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cLee\u2019s own statements on slavery are conflicting, but his overall record is clear. Although he repeatedly expressed his theoretical opposition to slavery, he in fact reflected the conventional thinking of the society from which he came and actively supported the \u201cpeculiar institution\u201d of slavery. Well before joining the Confederacy, Lee loathed abolitionists, and his feelings hardened as the Civil War dragged on\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2018\/10\/why-i-threw-away-my-portrait-robert-e-lee\/573631\/\">Atlantic<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lee\u2019s statue in Richmond and other towns was erected as part of re-writing history in the 1890\u2019s, the revisionist movement to erase the stain of slavery.\u00a0\u00a0But just because it was rewritten in the past, doesn\u2019t mean it can\u2019t be revealed in the present.\u00a0\u00a0McKinley became Denali.\u00a0\u00a0Boulder became Hoover.\u00a0\u00a0And Lee\u2019s statues to racism should come down.\u00a0\u00a0His place in history won\u2019t be erased.\u00a0\u00a0But we can remember him for what he really did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wealthy Chicagoan One wealthy man in Chicago had his fortune protected from the Stock Market Crash of 1929.&nbsp;&nbsp;As the economy tanked, many workers lost their jobs.&nbsp;&nbsp;The banks closed, and savings vanished. Thousands of Chicagoans were left without a way to pay the bills, cover the rent, or even buy food.&nbsp;&nbsp; But the wealthy man in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2020\/07\/08\/not-in-stone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not in Stone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Not in Stone : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It&#039;s not that history &quot;changes&quot; - it&#039;s who &quot;writes your story&quot; that determines how the story is told. 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