[Wichita Eagle] In the latest cultural skirmish over how America remembers its Civil War, someone with apparent Union sympathies did a spray paint edit on a monument honoring Confederate soldiers at Wichita’s Veterans Memorial Park. Whoever did it painted over the word "Confederate" in the phrase "In honor of all Confederate veterans of the War Between the States 1861-1865.
On the same granite panel, they painted over the words "courage," "devotion" and "military duty" in regard to the troops of the Confederacy. On another panel, they altered a sentence honoring Confederate dead copied from a memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. The carved inscription reads, "Not for fame or reward, not for place or rank, not lured by ambition or goaded by necessity, but in simple obedience to duty as they understood it, these men suffered all — sacrificed all — dared all — and died."
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