My great aunt Susie Lee Walton championed Putnam County's Confederate Art project in 1924. But 2021's spiteful Confederates also betray the "inspiration" of her imaginary "heroes."
Susie Lee Walton did not design, nor pay for, nor erect the monument. Residents of the area did, many who lost loved ones to the Civil War. As a Vietnam era Veteran, I was spit on, mocked, and my life threatened for a War which I had absolutely no control over. I enlisted because I wanted to serve my family and my country just as almost every one of these soldiers this statue represents did. This isn't a General, or a Commander. This represents a soldier serving in the military to protect his family.
Please stop removing American soldier's statues. Virtually everyone now knows that the Vietnam War was wrong as well as the Iraq War where millions needlessly died. Soldiers had no say so in those wars. Politicians did. Will you come now and remove our monuments? Will you tear down the Vietnam Wall, or those of Desert Storm?
Will my place of honor in a Veterans cemetery, owned by the same government, be removed also one day when the winds of public opinion shift? You write a lengthy article espousing your personal opinions. Perhaps it should include those of others as well without the denigration.
Putnam's multiracial WWI dead silently mock the "chivalry" of their Confederate intruder
Susie Lee Walton did not design, nor pay for, nor erect the monument. Residents of the area did, many who lost loved ones to the Civil War. As a Vietnam era Veteran, I was spit on, mocked, and my life threatened for a War which I had absolutely no control over. I enlisted because I wanted to serve my family and my country just as almost every one of these soldiers this statue represents did. This isn't a General, or a Commander. This represents a soldier serving in the military to protect his family.
Please stop removing American soldier's statues. Virtually everyone now knows that the Vietnam War was wrong as well as the Iraq War where millions needlessly died. Soldiers had no say so in those wars. Politicians did. Will you come now and remove our monuments? Will you tear down the Vietnam Wall, or those of Desert Storm?
Will my place of honor in a Veterans cemetery, owned by the same government, be removed also one day when the winds of public opinion shift? You write a lengthy article espousing your personal opinions. Perhaps it should include those of others as well without the denigration.
I hope there is an effort to get the confederate art project moved and put in proper perspective.