[GreyFriar]

I called a VMI graduate friend of mine. He lamented the decision. I asked him to name a couple of people to erect statues of to “replace” LTG Thomas Jackson. He recommended 3 VMI graduates:

LTG John A. Lejeune, USMC, Graduate and VMI Commandant during the Depression, who kept the school open during those lean years.

General Leonard T. Gerow, US Army

General Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr., USMC

[Wonder Warthog]

"LTG John A. Lejeune, USMC, Graduate and VMI Commandant during the Depression, who kept the school open during those lean years."

And a Louisiana "good ole boy" born and raised about five miles from my home town in Pointe Coupee Parish. Members of his family are buried in the cemetery of my baptismal church.