From Lofty Perch, New Orleans Monument to Confederacy Comes Down

With the yank of a crane and to a cheer from the crowd, Robert E. Lee was lifted off his 80-foot perch, where he had been standing gazing north for most of 133 years, and slowly lowered to the ground. It was the last monument of four to be removed....
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