With all the controversy surrounding confederate statues I decided to take some photos of the one in my home town. This monument to our confederate soldiers has stood on the Lonoke County Courthouse square for close to 100 years. There have never been any complaints about it.
I rode my bicycle around it, skated around it, and drove by it many times a day during all my 'formative years'. It has not made me a racist, caused me to long for the days of slavery or have any ill feelings to African-Americans. It is simply in memory of the confederate soldiers from Lonoke County. When it was erected many of those veterans were still alive.
I hope it will never be taken down.
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