Estimated cost to haul statue nearby would be $15K (TX)

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By Bj Lewis and Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe Staff Writers
Published: 30 July 2015 10:53 PM

... “If you voted against secession, you were a unionist. But because of where you lived, you had to serve in the Confederacy if you were the right age and health,” Riddle said. “It didn’t matter if you didn’t believe in the cause, you were going to fight unless you moved to another state or fled to Mexico” ...

Hunt estimated it would take about five days and cost about $15,000 to dismantle and reinstall Denton’s Confederate monument, provided crews hauled it to a nearby location ...

Dale Sellers of Phoenix One in Farmers Branch said although his company had the expertise to do the work, it wouldn’t take the job ...

The last time local activist Willie Hudspeth pushed for the monument to be moved and was unsuccessful, he proposed fixing the water fountains as a compromise ...

http://www.dentonrc.com/local-news/local-news-headlines/20150730-estimated-cost-to-haul-it-nearby-would-be-15k.ece

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1. What's the cost of renting a dozer and a dump truck?

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3. In Testing 'Southern Heritage', Some Face the Gun

... He was obviously upset. He's got this weapon on his shoulder. He was just flailing around and moving around really weird--like, and he was really had that look. I just imagine it, it was the look like the guy who did the bombing in the theater. That kind of look. He had it ...

He said, do you know the history of the Confederate monument and who put it here? Yeah, I know who put it here. It's on the front ...

This all started when one of the commissioners that was in office suggested that they turn the water back on to the fountains. Then I did a little research and found out no one could drink from the water fountains except white people. The Indians couldn't, the African-Americans couldn't, the Hispanics couldn't. No one but white people could drink from these fountains. So when I heard they were going to turn it back on I said, okay, turn it back on but put something on the monument that communicates why it was that way in the first place ...

So why don't we put that hangman noose in the gallows right over there, and the cages where they put the women, and the beatings stake where they beat the men? And the part where they dug a ditch and put them in there alive? Why don't we do that? That's history, too ...

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