Last month, Valor Memorial Park acquired the Spanish American War Memorial from Asheville, North Carolina. Valor, a privately owned park in North Carolina dedicated to honoring all veterans, made a Facebook post showing the pieces of the monument arriving on site via truck. It’s not exactly clear why the monument was removed in the first place – as far as I know, it didn’t involve the Confederacy or Christopher Columbus, the statue genocide perpetrators’ favorite targets – but one commenter on the post stated that the city simply felt that the monument was too difficult to maintain. Sounds a bit strange to me, but regardless of the reasoning, I’m glad that the monument has a new home where people will cherish and take care of it.
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