MOVING THE CONFEDERATE MONUMENT TO VETERANS PARK IS THE ONLY SOLUTION

The Confederate monument located outside of the Lauderdale County Courthouse belongs at a museum. For the purposes of education and understanding it deserves to be rededicated.

The Florence-Lauderdale County Veterans Memorial currently contains markers listing every fallen soldier from Lauderdale County who served in WWI until present day. Each Confederate and Union soldier from Lauderdale County who died in the Civil War deserves to be remembered.

How many of those CSA soldiers from Lauderdale County were of the approximate 25% drafted into the Confederate States Army?

This monument belongs inside the park dedicated to the veterans of this county. I believe this request to be a reasonable and fair compromise.

Relocating the monument behind the Florence-Lauderdale County Veterans Museum will remain out of site from the road, yet safely monitored. Hopefully, the day will come that a larger museum will be built on site.

While it is technically true that history can not be erased, it can be easily forgotten. Please let us not forgot that our local history is family history. If someone wants to know their heritage they can usually find it in their family tree. If your roots go deep enough in Lauderdale County you will find that we are all related.

I ask you Mr. Danny Pettus and every Lauderdale County Commissioner to please put an end to this modern day online war of words and please move the Confederate Monument to where it belongs: the Florence-Lauderdale County Veterans Museum and Memorial.

Your good bud,

Uncle ZAR