By Dan Herro On Tuesday, June 23, 2020, the State Capitol statues of Colonel Hans Christian Heg and “Forward”, our State Motto, were torn down during a day of violent protests and damaging riots. This was part of a larger national (and even international, as we have seen recently) left-wing movement against alleged institutionalized racism in the US and as a response to the arrest of a man wielding a baseball bat in a Madison restaurant earlier that day. Col. Heg was a Norwegian immigrant and abolitionist from Muskego who fought for the Union Army during the Civil War. Col.…
CPofWisconsinJuly 24, 2020
