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  • New life for an old Civil War sentinel

    06/16/2007 8:42:56 PM PDT · by Coleus · 3 replies · 236+ views
    Star Ledger ^ | 06.11.07 | Bob Braun
    Bill Styple and time have a peculiar relationship. He lives in the present, writes about the past and wants to save both the present and the past for the future of his town. "I just want to preserve for our children a little of what I and my parents had in the past," says Styple, 46, who, with others from Kearny, is about to give the Hudson County town, its residents and its children a gift: A statue of a Civil War soldier. A replica of a statue that, for nearly 50 years until 1933, stood mute guard before the...