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Message: [QUOTE="oldude, post: 5273050, member: 7511"] So I am going to wade into the statue discussion against my better judgment. A year ago my wife and I visited the Normandy battlefield. One of our stops was at the statue of Major Dick Winters on the road to Utah Beach. Major Winters, the person, appeared along with other veterans of Easy Company of the 101st Airborne Division throughout the Band of Brothers tv miniseries on HBO. In one episode Winters told the story of a discussion he had with one of his men many years after the war was over. The man’s young granddaughter asked him, “Grampa, were you a hero during the war?” The man said, “No. But I served in a company of heros.” Winters was a hero in everyone’s judgment except his own. Throughout his life, many veterans organizations asked for his permission to erect a statue in his honor. He consistently refused until he got very near the end of his life, at which point he agreed, so long as 2 conditions were met: 1. The statue had to be dedicated to all the officers and men who served on D-Day. 2. The statue could only be erected after his death, which it was 2 years after Winters passed away. Now what does this have to do with A’ja and Dawn’s statues in Columbia, SC? I absolutely get the importance of erecting 2 statues to successful and inspirational black women in a state like SC, with all the history that entails. What I guess I don’t understand is why you would erect those statues when A’ja and Dawn are still alive and their life stories are yet to be completed. [/QUOTE]

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