Repairing Confederate monument could cost up to $25,000

A local monument specialist says the nameless Confederate statue that was ripped down from the top of its granite perch inside Columbus' Confederate Cemetery can be restored.Carmine Menduni, President of Columbus Art Memorial Inc, says the zinc statue can be rebuilt to look like new.The company, which has been in business restoring and making monuments for 95 years, says there is an Ohio company that has a mold that would allow the statue to be restored.The question is who has the money to pay f