Few people have seen what became of Alexander Phimister Proctor's statue of Robert E. Lee, right, and a young soldier since its removal from the park formerly known as Lee Park, where it stood for over 80 years until it's removal in Sept. 2017. Shortly before Christmas, on Dec. 20, 2018, The Dallas Morning News got a behind-the-scenes look the secure storage area where the statue of the Confederate general is being kept at Hensley Field, the former Naval Air Station on the west side of Mountain Creek Lake in Dallas. The statue is being kept there until its future is decided. (Ashley Landis/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
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