From the September 9, 2021, Chicago Tribune by Sarah Rankin and Denise Lavoie, AP.
A crowd erupted in cheers and song Wednesday as workers hoisted one of the nation's largest Confederate monuments off a pedestal of Gen. Robert E. Lee towered over Virginia's capital city for more than a century. Richmond was also the capital of the Confederacy.
This was a magnificent example of public art. See the painting of the statue on its dedication back in the late1800s. Again, I just don't see how people could have lived with the statue over a hundred years before some of them realized they were offended by it?
The statue was lowered to the ground just before 9 am (How about that? A statue removed during the daytime instead of the dead of the night.) after a construction worker who strapped harnesses around Lee and his horse lifted his arms in the air and counted, "Three, two, one!" to jubilant shouts from hundreds of people.
A work crew began cutting it into pieces.
Believe me, there are many of us who are quite less than jubilant over this affront to our heritage.
--Old Secesh
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