Hi Guys.
I'm posting this diary in an effort to help StargazerNC reach her goal of 500 signatures for her Change.org petition to preserve the Dix Hospital in Raleigh North Carolina as a national Monument, which would be the first monument in the state of North Carolina.
The Link to the Petition is below:
https://www.change.org/...
As of this typing, we have 428 signatures 72 short of the number needed. i am hoping that this diary will put us over the top in that regard. according to what StargazerNC has learned, it takes 6 weeks for the President to decide on creating a monument , which from today would put us at around March 21st. It was around that date - March 25th to be precise- that President Obama created 5 national monuments in 2013: San Juan Islands, Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers, Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad, First State, and Rio Grande Del Norte. So there's hopeful precedent.