A North Carolina city has come up with a plan to replace a statue that had been at the center of a religious controversy. The King City Council held a special meeting Tuesday, and approved a design for a new kneeling soldier statue to be placed at the Veteran's Memorial in Central Park.
The statue will show the silhouette of a soldier kneeling by a rifle with a helmet on top, symbolizing a fallen soldier.
The former statue showed a soldier kneeling before a cross. It was removed from the Veteran's Memorial Jan. 6 as part of a lawsuit settlement agreement.
The Winston-Salem Journal reports the council also unanimously voted to declare the old statue as surplus, with the intent of donating it to American Legion Post 290 in King.
The Veteran's Memorial sits on city-owned land. Under the settlement, the city agreed to remove the statue of the soldier kneeling at a cross, and repealed its flag policy, which had allowed residents to place religious flags at the memorial in honor of veterans. The Christian flag had flown there most weeks.
It's unknown how much the new statue will cost or when it will be placed at the memorial.
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