News Just "Don't" Get Any Better: More Monuments Coming Down

June 10, 2020

**  'If we don't move it, they'll take it down':  Protests prompt U.S. leaders to remove Confederate statues.   (A sad statement of out time.  We have to let them break the law.)

**  Protests are bringing down Confederate monuments  around the South.

**  Confederate statue removed from Florida park.  (Jacksonville's Hemming Park.  Of a Confederate infantryman.)

**  Confederate monuments could come down for Asheville, Buncombe County.  (North Carolina.  City and town considering resolution to remove two Confederate monuments which have been victims of hate crimes.  Also the gravestone of Civil War North Carolina Governor Vance has been knocked over in local cemetery.)

**  Calls to remove Confederate statue from state capitol's front lawn.  (Atlanta, Georgia.  Statue of John Brown Gordon, a Confederate general, was defended by law enforcement so it was nor "vandalized."

**  However, a "Peace Monument" in Atlanta's Piedmont Park was "Vandalized."  Dedicated in 1911, it marked fifty years of peace between the North and South.

**  Huntsville city council president backs removal of Confederate statue at courthouse.  (Alabama)

And, remember, Wikipedia has a complete list of Confederate monuments removed, hate crimed or plans to remove.  Kind of beat the old SPLC to it.  Sorry guys.  Go to "List of monuments and memorials removed during George Floyd protests."

--Old Secesh