West Palm Beach removes Confederate monument from city cemetery
By Eliot Kleinberg - Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
It didn’t take even 24 hours for the city to make good on its promise to remove a monument to the Confederate dead from West Palm Beach-owned Woodlawn Cemetery.
At midday Tuesday, workers carved the monument out.
Mayor Jeri Muoio had said Monday that the city would remove the 10-foot-tall "In memory of our Confederate Soldiers" fixture, which is owned by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. She said the city’s lawyers had reached out to the Daughters in the past few months, asking them to remove the monument.
“They haven’t done that, so we will do it for them,” she said Monday. "We sort of lost our patience" ...
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