Vandals decapitate Confederate soldier statue at Camp Chase cemetery

[Henry Krinkle]

Removing Confederate statues and memorials from public property is one thing, but there has to be a line drawn
when it comes to desecrating memorials, graveyards and markers in honor of the dead.

The only thing that will come of this is that the racists will eventually retaliate and vandalize monuments erected and
dedicated to PoC's.

A federal agency plans to repair a bronze statue of a soldier that was toppled over and decapitated early Tuesday by vandals at Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery on the Hilltop.

When the statue was knocked over, its head was decapitated, likely from striking a column in the fall to the ground, said Columbus Police Lt. Clifton Dean. The vandals took the head of the soldier but left the hat, he said.

The vandalism occurred sometime between midnight and 6:30 a.m. Tuesday at the cemetery, where more than 2,000 Civil War soldiers are buried, most of them Confederate soldiers buried there after they died while imprisoned. Officers noticed the broken monument around 7:20 a.m. when doing a check of the cemetery.

Vandalism cases are difficult to prosecute because they are challenging to prove.

http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170822/vandals-decapitate-confederate-soldier-statue-at-camp-chase-cemetery





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[InAbLuEsTaTe]

1. Having a confederate statue in ANY cemetery is ITSELF a desecration!

[NutmegYankee]

2. Well, it IS a confederate cemetery.

Taken to its extreme, why have the cemetery at all? These men were traitors.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

3. Good point! But seriously, why exacerbate the situation with a white supremacist statue?

[NutmegYankee]

11. I don't consider a statue of a soldier in a soldier's graveyard to be quite the same.

In the case of generals and leaders, these were men, Officers, who had sworn an Oath to the USA and saluted her flag, and yet, turned around and ordered their men to fire on that flag and knock it to the earth below. I have little sympathy for them. But a statue of a soldier in a graveyard of such soldiers appears to be the proper context and a plaque can easily lay out the circumstances of their struggle and fate for all to understand.

[cwydro]

8. Yeah, dig 'em all up.

Throw their bones in a dumpster.

Yeah, that's the ticket.

[NutmegYankee]

10. I was being sarcastic too.

[cwydro]

17. Ah, glad to hear that.

I took it wrong, and I apologize.

[Henry Krinkle]

14. Sometimes, this site never fails to suprise me.

Thank you for your contribution.

[hunter]

4. Sounds like something drunk white boys would do.

Why did the do it? Because it was there.

[Henry Krinkle]

15. Yeah, they just needed it for this years homecoming float

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5. In a related story, jews vandalize swastika graffiti with soap and water!

[ProudLib72]

6. I hope the Nazis don't lose their heads over this

(Yes, I admit that was a bad joke)

[Abu Pepe]

7. stupid and unhelpful

edited to say. fuck the confederacy. but vandalizing anything in a cemetary is a bad idea.
and hard to defend to the general public.

just sayin'

[Yupster]

9. Really just degenerating into

a mob of vandals.

Can't defend it.

[Henry Krinkle]

16. Cowards and assholes I say

Because they know the dead can't fight back

[SharonClark]

19. Agree.

[GeoWilliam750]

12. Vandalizing any cemetery is wrong

[cwydro]

18. Yes, it is.

Absolutely wrong.

Union or Confederate...many of them were just poor men drafted into service. Think what the Vietnamese must think of our young men who burned their villages, killed their livestock, raped their women, and machine gunned their children.

War is an abomination. Period.

[melman]

21. Agreed

Not only wrong but one of the worst things a person could do.

[Not Ruth]

13. There are hundreds of Confederates buried at Arlington

Thought that was interesting

[alcibiades_mystery]

20. Thaaaaaaaaaaaaat's a shame