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Opinion: Old Joe statue is offensive
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Downtown Gainesville's Old Joe statue is clean of graffiti Monday, June 1, 2020, after vandals painted the base of the monument the night before during protests downtown. - photo by Scott Rogers
A recent letter to the editor proposed that the statue of Old Joe on the Gainesville square should not be removed because “no one has pointed out anything offensive about him” and “he represents war veterans everywhere.”