Today Is...International Sculpture Day

I'm not much of a lover of statues. Not the sculptures themselves but the people who they choose to make statues of. Wherever you go, whichever country to choose, the majority of their statues are of some old, long dead military personnel.
When you get off the ferry at Le Harve in France, as you walk towards the town centre you are greeted by a huge statue of Napoleon on his horse and maybe i read the wrong history books but wasn't Napoleon just an earlier version of Hitler invading much of Europe and hacking his way around the globe?
The Americans put a statue of Ronald Reagan outside the American Embassy a few weeks ago but they paid for it and it is their embassy so they can put anyone they want there, to me Ronald Reagan just makes me think of spitting image and 'the President's brain is missing' sketches. His crime sheet is anything but spotless and nor will his head and shoulders be when the pigeons have their say on what they think.
The problem with having statues of war people is that the country involved is celebrating the slaughter of another people because you can't have a war without another participant and by it's very nature, the victor is the one who inflicts the most damage on the other.
To me if you are going to celebrate anyone, it should be people who are genuine heroes who helped mankind, not killed as many as possible of them so folk like Gagarin, Darwin, Armstrong, Newton, Watt, Fleming, Aristotle, Edison, Shakespeare, Nightingale, Bell and Einstein who where all people who made enduring contributions to our existence and they should be celebrated front and centre on 40ft high columns, not some Admiral who mowed down Johnny Foreigner a few centuries ago.
I would certainly avoid building further remembrances to any more political or military personnel because they seem perfectly worth celebrating today, may be seen in a very different light by future generations and end up with a traffic cone on their head which does happen a lot over here.