The local board voted to keep our monuments where they belong. The exhaustion is heavy but I am grateful that we managed to hold the line together. We will remain watchful to ensure this decision is respected.
July 25, 2020
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Reached 1,000 supporters
July 8, 2020
July 6, 2020
The emails to the county offices have been met with silence for the most part but I am not stopping. It is exhausting to fight for this history when it feels like nobody is truly listening across the table.
Reached 100 supporters
July 6, 2020
July 3, 2020
The momentum is building but the heavy lifting is still ahead of us. We need to push past this first hundred names to show the county that our history is not up for debate. Please get this in front of anyone else who believes in keeping these monuments where they belong.
476 Comments
Let is stay where it is. It is history. It was not put there to offend those who claim that they are offended. This is America, Home of the Free, and everyone does not have to agree on everything, yet we can still unite for the good of our country.
It would be nice to see the preservation of the statute, while also adding some type of monument to celebrate someone from Newton County who helped with Civil Rights or contributed in a positive way for the betterment of the community. Do not destroy history, learn, grow and add to it, in the most positive way.
This served as a monument to the young men in grey that never returned to their loved ones. This was the only thing those mothers, wives, sister and fathers had to remember the sacrifice of their sons whom many they never heard from or saw again. Please leave our town's history alone!!
Do not take this down. I'm 65 moved to Covington in 1959. That statue has never hurt anyone. Its history. It sure is not the one who is protesting, burning, or beating or murdering any one. You are looking at this all wrong.
This statute has been on the square my entire childhood and adult life. I'm 48. No one had a problem with it prior to the rioting. It is a memorial for the dead who helped form our nation. Which side they fought on should not matter. They sacrificed their life.
"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future."-Winston Churchill
It is part of History! Let it stay & let us learn from it. Don’t tear it down. Let us learn from it & move on into the future.
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The local board voted to keep our monuments where they belong. The exhaustion is heavy but I am grateful that we managed to hold the line together. We will remain watchful to ensure this decision is respected.
July 25, 2020
Final supporters
Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
July 8, 2020
July 6, 2020
The emails to the county offices have been met with silence for the most part but I am not stopping. It is exhausting to fight for this history when it feels like nobody is truly listening across the table.
Reached 100 supporters
July 6, 2020
July 3, 2020
The momentum is building but the heavy lifting is still ahead of us. We need to push past this first hundred names to show the county that our history is not up for debate. Please get this in front of anyone else who believes in keeping these monuments where they belong.
476 Comments
Keep history alive. Tearing it down does not solve problems. Future generations need to be reminded what happened in our past. Leaving statues/monuments like this up opens conversations. Those who cannot learn from their past are destined to repeat it.
Let is stay where it is. It is history. It was not put there to offend those who claim that they are offended. This is America, Home of the Free, and everyone does not have to agree on everything, yet we can still unite for the good of our country.
It would be nice to see the preservation of the statute, while also adding some type of monument to celebrate someone from Newton County who helped with Civil Rights or contributed in a positive way for the betterment of the community. Do not destroy history, learn, grow and add to it, in the most positive way.
This served as a monument to the young men in grey that never returned to their loved ones. This was the only thing those mothers, wives, sister and fathers had to remember the sacrifice of their sons whom many they never heard from or saw again. Please leave our town's history alone!!
Do not take this down. I'm 65 moved to Covington in 1959. That statue has never hurt anyone. Its history. It sure is not the one who is protesting, burning, or beating or murdering any one. You are looking at this all wrong.
This statute has been on the square my entire childhood and adult life. I'm 48. No one had a problem with it prior to the rioting. It is a memorial for the dead who helped form our nation. Which side they fought on should not matter. They sacrificed their life.
"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future."-Winston Churchill
It is part of History! Let it stay & let us learn from it. Don’t tear it down. Let us learn from it & move on into the future.
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Keep history alive. Tearing it down does not solve problems. Future generations need to be reminded what happened in our past. Leaving statues/monuments like this up opens conversations. Those who cannot learn from their past are destined to repeat it.