Sometime during the evening of Thursday, December 15th, someone vandalized the JEB Stuart, Stonewall Jackson, and Jefferson Davis monuments on Monument Avenue in Richmond.
After seeing this news story early Friday morning, Flagger Tripp Lewis notified the group. The word was spread and a call to action signaled by FB,
text alert, and email blast. By noon, 5 Va Flaggers had made their way to Monument Ave.
The vandalism was covered, police were notified, and flaggers patrolled the monuments.
By 3:00 pm, Tripp had been interviewed by News Channel 6, City workers had arrived, and the monuments were clean.
Shout out to Va Flaggers Tripp Lewis, Fred Merridew, Barry Isenhour, Willie Wells, and Capt. Tucker for their quick and courageous stand, in very unfriendly territory and to all those who worked behind the scenes, for a hard fought, but speedy victory!
Saturday morning's edition of the Richmond Times-Dispatch featured a beautiful photo of one of our flags on the cover of the Metro section.
There is a survey here asking whether or not the plaques were actually vandalism.
God bless the Va Flaggers!
Susan Hathaway
vaflagger@comcast.net
I hope these people are punished to the full extent of the law! These are just people with a warped sense of history.
ReplyDeleteLittle useful idiots.
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