There has been increasing pressure to remove a Confederate monument from Arizona's Wesley Bolin Plaza at the Capitol. Now a veteran community has gathered 80 signatures on a petition demanding its removal.
Army veteran Cory Harris says the monument opposes the freedoms he fought for.
“We need to take down this monument. This monument was built specifically to fight against the civil rights movement of the ‘60s. To pretend that slavery didn’t happen," Harris said.
This memorial was enacted almost a century after the end of the Civil War, and the defeat of the Confederacy.
Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs is also asking a top aide to Gov. Doug Ducey to remove the monument. The park has a series of monuments memorializing everything from the sinking of the USS Arizona to the Vietnam War to 9/11.
Rep. Richard Andrade is sponsoring legislation to have it removed.
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