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Move the Statues
RECEIVED Mon., June 1, 2015
Dear Editor:
Why not move Coppini's campus statues of the Confederates in question ["Written in Stone," News, May 29] to the four corners of the Confederate Field located at the Texas State Cemetery?
There, Coppini's works could join Elisabet Ney's 1905 stone monument to rebel General Albert Sidney Johnston in honoring "The Lost Cause."
My paternal grandmother was Fay Littlefield Longley, a niece of the esteemed long-departed Major; and, in 2013, my daughter's wedding took place in the Littlefield Home on the UT Campus.
I would have no objection to such a move, and, in their new location, the statues could continue as historical symbols without inflicting any further political pain.
Why not move Coppini's campus statues of the Confederates in question ["Written in Stone," News, May 29] to the four corners of the Confederate Field located at the Texas State Cemetery?
There, Coppini's works could join Elisabet Ney's 1905 stone monument to rebel General Albert Sidney Johnston in honoring "The Lost Cause."
My paternal grandmother was Fay Littlefield Longley, a niece of the esteemed long-departed Major; and, in 2013, my daughter's wedding took place in the Littlefield Home on the UT Campus.
I would have no objection to such a move, and, in their new location, the statues could continue as historical symbols without inflicting any further political pain.
Joe K. Longley