A 121-year-old Confederate monument was coming down. This Kentucky town put it back up.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/a-121-year-old-confederate-monument-was-coming-down-this-kentucky-town-put-it-back-up/2017/08/20/7a397fc6-85b0-11e7-a50f-e0d4e6ec070a_story.html

A 121-year-old Confederate monument was coming down. This Kentucky town put it back up.
By Chico Harlan | August 20 at 6:38 PM

BRANDENBURG, Ky. — The leaders in this small town said they wanted history to be preserved, not erased, so they piled into a car last summer for what they considered an important mission: to save a Confederate monument from possible destruction. The monument had stood in Louisville for 121 years — 70 feet tall, more than 100 tons of granite. But Louisville wanted it removed and called a public meeting to help determine its relocation. One speaker said the structure should be “obliterated.” Another said he would gladly help drop it into the river. And then, one by one, up to the microphone came the people from Brandenburg.

“I think it would be well-received by the county and the residents,” the county judge executive said.

“Brandenburg has a rich Civil War history,” the local historian said.

“We’re proposing to put this monument right here,” the mayor said, holding up a photo of a riverfront park, and soon the largest Confederate monument in Kentucky was disassembled and placed on flatbed trucks, rebuilt 45 miles away in a place certain about the history it wanted on display.

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1. States rights, the will of the local people, overriden by the minority forcing their will on others

The GOP are a bunch of hypocrites!

A year after Obama and they shit on everything they forced down our throats for 8 years to save a racist monument.

Assholes.

No offense

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2. That really is one stupid looking monument!