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GiqueCee

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4. When Gutzon Borglum...

Thu Mar 6, 2025, 10:08 AM

Mar 2025

... started work on Stone Mountain, the Civil War was less that 50 years past, and tens of thousands of people still living had first-hand recollections of the horrors visited upon the nation by the traitors being memorialized.
Borglum should never have accepted the commission, but then, he wasn't an American, so he had no skin in the game, so to speak; it was all about the Benjamins for him. He would up getting fired anyway.

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