How to move a 14-ton Confederate monument

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Tony Marrero, Times Staff Writer
Monday, September 4, 2017 5:00am

TAMPA ...

Crews are scheduled to begin work this week to disassemble Memoria In Aeterna, the 106-year-old Confederate war memorial that has stood in front of the old county courthouse on Pierce Street since 1952. From there, it will be trucked to a storage center until its new site is ready at a small cemetery owned by the Brandon family, the namesake of the east Hillsborough community, is ready.

It will take crews several days just to take apart the monument, said Josh Bellotti, the county's director of real estate and facilities services.

"It's a deliberate and meticulous process," Bellotti said.

The monument is comprised of two Confederate soldiers — one facing north, upright and heading to battle and the other facing south, his clothes tattered as he heads home humbled by war. Between them is a 32-foot tall obelisk with the image of a Confederate flag chiseled into it. All the pieces are held together with grout and sit on a base of four steps. They weigh about 32,000 pounds ...

http://www.tampabay.com/news/localgovernment/how-to-move-a-14-ton-century-old-confederate-monument/2336051

[sarisataka]

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[UTUSN]

4. That was my thought, too.

[politicat]

2. They can leave the one headed south.

Tattered and humbled -- that's a good memorial for traitors who fought in a traitors' war.

I, and I suspect most people, would have fewer problems with the Confederate memorials if they were honest.

[drray23]

3. according to the article they are spending $280,000 to move it.

I can think of many other uses for that money. Just bulldoze the darn thing for a fraction of the cost.