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Our Military Today Embraces Honor, Courage, and Commitment. the Men Whose Statues Are on Monument Avenue Demonstrated Those Virtues Our military today embraces honor, courage, and commitment. The men whose statues are on Monument Avenue demonstrated those virtues. Robert E. Lee was a hero to Presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower and to World War Two Army Chief of Staff (later Secretary of state and Secretary of Defense) George C. Marshall. The opinions of those three great Americans carry greater weight than those of today's Confederate haters. please leave the civil war monument alone.... their not not hurting anyone or anything.... i had 3 great great grand fathers that fought under the confederacy.. i think it is a sin and shame to removed them.. please leave them where they are.. thank you... for any support you can give .. <NAME REDACTED> Please leave our monuments alone. I will arrange maintenance of the monuments with no cost to the city through a nonprofit. One less reason to destroy Virginia's history. Don't be that person. Contact me, let's discuss my offer. Relocate to a museum like area 1) Move the Arthur Ashe monument to Byrd Park near the tennis courts and in a prominent place where the Boulevard meets Blanton Ave. This is where it should always have been. Mr. Ashe was certainly a world class athlete and citizen, but Monument Ave. is not the correct context for this monument. 2) In place of his monument (and in exactly the same place on Monument Ave.) there could be a an appropriately scaled monument to black federal troops who fought around Richmond and were part of the occupying Federal forces. There should be specific photographic evidence of such troops and their likenesses (in heroic scale, as with the other monuments) could be reproduced exactly. To me, this would add the strong “context” currently sought for Monument Ave. The free blacks and liberated/escaped slaves who fought on the front lines (and died in substantial numbers) were courageous and deserve this measure of respect and “context.” I have a measured suggestion. Why not compromise? Leave some and remove others. Remove Stuart. Leave Lee. Remove Davis, and put something in his place. Leave Maury, remove Stonewall, and put something in his place. Relocate the Davis and Stuart statues to Hollywood Cemetery, and relocate the Stonewall statue to a proper location at the Chancellorsville or Anteitam Battlefield Parks where he fought his greatest battles. Then, at the beginning of Monument at Stuart Circle put up a monument commemorating the history of Virginia and how important Richmond was- possibly a curved slab, almost a complete circle following the curve of the road, front and back, depicting all the famous Virginians who have done something good for this country and highlighting important historical events that shaped the city. Make it the beginning of a walking tour down Monument highlighting the history of the street and Richmond's checkered past. After Lee, where Davis used to be, put something nice, like a fountain, and historical markers highlighting more history in the area. It's a huge space to put something beautiful and commemorative to replace that gaudy monument. Past that, where Stonewall used to be, put up a monument commemorating Gabriel Prosser, Nat Turner, Dredd Scott and the fight for freedom from slavery over the years in Virginia. Then finish with Maury and Ashe. We have the opportunity to create something new while avoiding the erasure of history and a massive expenditure of tax dollars that could be better used elsewhere. Have VCU students compete to design the three new monuments/memorials. Make it a community and media event - the grand reopening of Monument Ave. Show the rest of the nation that the Capitol of the Confederacy can bring people together and honor our past while remembering it the right way and looking towards our future. We can rewrite history, however painful, and create an opportunity for people to learn and grow from seeing such a timeline put into the right context. These monuments are of valuable historical significance. They should be part of a national theme park dedicated to early American History. The theme would be a major tourist attraction. Dear Mayor Stoney, I am writing directly to you at the encouragement of my wife and friends who believe my concept for an approach to adding context to the Civil War monuments in Richmond is worthy of your attention. I have a background in the performing and visual arts with hands on experience in the design, fabrication, and installation of pieces for special events as well as permanent sculpture, including the rotating fountain at Mt. Gilled Full Gospel International Ministries on the Southside of Richmond. I an of the opinion that the monuments should remain in Richmond, and that they should be modified to tell a more complete story. However, I believe that mere signage for adding “context” would be woefully inadequate. The pieces on Monument avenue are among the largest in Virginia, if not the entire South. They rival the largest monuments to any persons in the entire United States. If context is indeed added, it must be large, bold, and as emotionally impactful as the existing monuments themselves. I believe that the pedestals and grounds for these monuments can be used as blank canvasses for additional art. This art can be both temporary, such as 3D architectural projections, or permanent, taking advantage of the large square footage areas of the faces of the bases, as well as additional greenspace around the statues. Each an every one of these sites deserves to be treated as a new public art commission, with artists invited to create their concepts of how to modify AND beautify the statues while adding emotionally impactful imagery. Two years ago I began to play with ideas of what this imagery might look like, and to that end created a Facebook page to help share the visualizations. Little did I know how important this conversation would become, especially in light of the horrible events that unfolded this weekend in Charlottesville. I am writing to share the link to that page, and to explore how I might be able to share these ideas with the public. I am willing to create a powerpoint presentation, and speak publicly about these ideas. Please let me emphasis that none of the ideas I show on the page are meant to be specific solutions. I have digitally altered some of the monuments to show HOW they could be altered. As I mentioned, the specifics of each monument deserves careful individual attention, open dialog, public input, and a great deal of creative investment. https://www.facebook.com/Update-the-Civil-War-Monuments-in-Richmond-1647423188827903/ I am available for any questions, and look forward to hearing back from your office. Sincerely, <NAME REDACTED> Thank you for allowing me to comment. Your's will not be an easy task - to hear all sides, discuss civily, and make a decission that will reflect who Richmond was, is, and wants to be.I support keeping the monuments in place and the overall character of Monument Avenue but I strongly encourage reframing the context of the existing monuments.I would add more monuments to the story starting with Chief Powhatan and Pocohantas and all native Americans. I would add a monument to the 'unknown slaves' without whom Richmond, Virginia, and the US would not be the great places they are. One or two more statues to significant people of color should also be included: Maggie Walker, Bill Robinson, Doug Wilder etc (I admit ignorance of history and strong contributers in this category). I would add a monument that represents the Civil Rights movement so that we can reflect on the costs of segregation and Jim Crow. I would add a reconciliation monument - the largest of them all - that acknowledges and apologizes for our trangressions and shows we are united moving into the future. I would make these monuments as 'grand' as the existing ones - OR, I would restructure the existing ones to downplay their importance (remove from the pedestal so to speak). In addition, the signs on the current statues should be reworked to convey an accurate account of their role in developing Richmond or Virginia, and their role in the Civil War, as slave owners etc.I know you are aware of other cities dealing with their monumnets. I hope you will reach out to them and listen to their lessons learned concerning the process. No matter how inclusive this Commission desires to be, some will believe it is partisan from the begining. Consider hiring an outside, neutral team to facilitate meetings, community input, notes, press and, so forth, though the final recommendations will be the commission's. I don't want to see anything added or taken away from Monument Ave. It's great the way it is. Leave it be. TAKE THEM DOWN; these men showed neither valor nor honor in a cause to continue the curse of slavery. Their descendants can still love them if they want to but no public place or funds should be used to promote a myth that the Civil War was for(southern) states' rights, unless the statement continues "to hold human beings as chattel in a country founded on the premise/promise of all men are created equal". As a state (I'm retired from education) and a nation, we must stop the obfuscation regarding slavery and the Civil War. A lie is nothing to be proud of. There appears to be two general categories of statuary in Richmond; 1.that related to the Civil War and 2. that related tp notable individuals.
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