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Why rescuing Christopher Columbus redeems America, too

Sometimes Humpty Dumpty can be put back together again. 

Back in 2020, during the spasm of violence associated with Black Lives Matter in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, vandals in Baltimore, Md., tore down a statue of Christopher Columbus. 

They shattered the figure of the iconic explorer and tossed the pieces into Inner Harbor, including the severed head. 

That seemed to bring to a decisive end a statue that had stood in Baltimore since 1984. 

This act of iconoclasm, though, has a happy ending.

A replica of that very same statue now stands in front of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, courtesy of a White House committed to the memory of the great navigator. 

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The assailed Baltimore statue found a friend in a local artist and fisherman named Tilghman Hemsley.

He got divers to fish out the pieces, and then his son, Will Hemsley, set about creating a replica, a painstaking and expensive........

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