After the event was done, It took all of about five minuets for the fence spanning the entrance of Fort Benning, and every thing on it, to be unceremoniously taken down and thrown in the back of waiting dump trucks. All this happened after the Police had cleared everyone away from the gate, marvelled at the hard work put into some of the items on the fence, took some souvenirs and snap shots and cracked some jokes. For the most part, the uniformed Columbus Police officers were pretty respectful in they're own peculiar way of what the tear down meant to people who had participated in the vigil. The MPs form Fort Benning and the plain clothes officers milling about on the other hand weren't as considerate... In the scene from the first photo, One MP (just visible in the background) joked, in regards to to a string of paper cranes that one of the Columbus officer took notice of, something to the effect of 'mental patients have to make those if they want to get fed', While a plane clothes officer grabbed an inflatable mannequin as another commented about how he had found a date. The guy who seemed to be in charge (in the white shirt) seemed to conduct himself with a particular air of subtle dickishness....

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Mike.
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