While cities and localities across the country continue to cave to left-wing pressure and rip down their own emblems of Confederate history, Alabama’s Crenshaw County is doing the exact opposite – they’re putting up a new one.
ABC reports the small Alabama town unveiled the new monument on Sunday, dedicating it to the county’s “Unknown Alabama Confederate Soldiers” who died during the Civil War.
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The commissioning ceremony was attended by both the Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy as well as a few people in Civil War-era clothing, who looked on while the stone obelisk was unveiled from beneath a red cloth as five canon shots were fired, ABC reports.
Officials told ABC that the timing of the monument's placement is merely a coincidence, as the monument was approved and ordered a year ago and the ceremony has been in the works for months.
David Coggins, owner of the Confederate Veterans Memorial Park where the monument was placed, told ABC the statue has nothing to do with racism, but rather with history.
"It's important that we remember our heritage and it's very important we remember our history, for those people that forget their heritage ... are doomed to repeat it again," he said, according to the report.
While an encouragement for the vast majority of Americans who say Confederate statues should be left alone, it looks like Crenshaw County may be in the minority when it comes to preserving their historical markers. Cities including Baltimore and New Orleans have already started pulling down their own Confederate monuments, while Charlottesville has elected to cover theirs with a cloth.