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Question of the Day By - Associated Press - Sunday, April 18, 2021
ROME, Ga. (AP) - An advisory committee says that a northwest Georgia statue of Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest should be placed inside a local museum.
The statue of Forrest, credited with being a founder of the Ku Klux Klan, was removed from its base in Rome‘s Myrtle Hill Cemetery in January. The Rome News-Tribune reports that City Commissioner Jamie Doss reported the recommendation of the committee to the full City Commission last week.
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“The committee likes the idea because they can tell the whole story (about Forrest),” Doss said. “They can tell the truth, the good and the bad.”
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