ATTENTION!!! If you were not up last night to catch the WITN Channel 7 news...the Confederate Monument on the Pitt County Court House lawn is being threatened!! A local man named Ozzie Hall is representing a group who wants to do away with the monument and the statue of the Confederate Veteran. They are trying to convince the Pitt County commissioners to act accordingly. Their plans are to have the monument removed from the premises by the end of summer and maybe place the statue of the Confederate Veteran in a local museum. This is not politics...to me...it is simply my desire to keep this monument as part of Pitt County's heritage. The monument was erected by the Citizens of Pitt County in 1914. When former NC Governor and Greenville citizen, Thomas J. Jarvis died in June of 1915, the populace of Greenville draped mourning ribbon and flowers around the monument in honor of Governor Jarvis's Confederate service. The monument honors our veterans and our heritage. Pitt County has been slow...even backward in honoring the memory of her Confederate veterans and so...I don't see the statue ever posing any kind of cultural endangerment to any groups or persons within this section of the state. Nancy L. Pittman, President George B. Singletary Chapter 313 United Daughters of the Confederacy Greenville, NC www.ncudc.org