“Good Luck! Appreciate you and your community for standing up for our heritage, and standing for the memory of those whose dedication of the statue reflected a pride of being Italian-American, and had no idea about transgressions of CC 500 years prior… They looked to him as a symbol of all that is good about our world and the Italian peoples formative role in it… no one can take that away from us…”
You cannot erase history. You must embrace it, and learn from it.
“History shouldn’t blind us; it must enlighten us. To ignore parts of history is to minimize and possibly destroy what history can teach us.”
We built this community. Who is Walsh to undo our celebration?
The reason I feel strongly about the memorial is that I know the local citizens who worked and saved for the monument, never meant it to be “a bad thing’………….My Great Grandfather, Brig.Gen. William Verbeck received a medal from Italy due to the monument being erected and I dare say the ‘249th National Guard Regiment’ marched in the parade.
