Civil War Memorial in Keyes City Park has to be completely redone after monument spoiled while engraving the latest six names

We cringe at a "typo"--typographical error--in our newspapers. They really cringe when it happens on a monument.

In October 2012 a ceremony was held in Keyes City Park to dedicate a large granite memorial to the more than 90 Du Quoin-area soldiers who lost their lives in the Civil War.

The monument was constructed at a cost of $3,400 through monies donated to the Volunteer Foundation. The Nashville Monument Co. was commissioned to perform the work. The outcome was stunning.

Since that day, the names of six more union soldiers from Du Quoin who served have been discovered. There was enough room on the bottom of the monument to add those names.

Nashville Monument scheduled a trip to Du Quoin with a mask containing the six names that would be taped over the stone. A high pressure gun that uses beads of sand--for lack of a better term-to etch the names into the stone was used. Monument companies perform the work beautifully day-in and day-out.

But, when the mask was pulled away, the six names were not centered as they should have been. In fact, the six new names were nearly overlapping part of the original engraving.

Oh, my God!

Du Quoin resident Joe Stephens, who began the project, and Volunteer Foundation officers, have been in contact with the Nashville Monument Co., which definitely wants the monument to be right.

They are going to take down the marker and engrave a new stone, which at some point will be reinstalled at the veterans plaza.