Preserve Tradition: Keep "Go Raiders" On The Water Tower Petition: Signature List Feed http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/preserve-tradition-keep-go-raiders-on-the-water-tower.html Online petition signatures en-us Wed, 6 May 2026 01:01 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Bill McAllister [Signature #520] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19612762?utm_medium=rss I am a 1968 graduate of DHS. The Go Raiders wording on the water tank is as much a part of Decatur history as anything else is. It would be a shame to not have it on there. I like the young man's idea to leave it there and do other things on the reverse side.

]]> Mon, 18 Jan 2016 11:09:59 UTC 19612762 Angela Brown [Signature #519] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19427244?utm_medium=rss Sat, 31 Oct 2015 07:48:04 UTC 19427244 Anonymous [Signature #518] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19410381?utm_medium=rss Fri, 23 Oct 2015 05:35:59 UTC 19410381 Mrs Heather Harris [Signature #517] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19408847?utm_medium=rss Thu, 22 Oct 2015 08:12:16 UTC 19408847 Austin Dupper [Signature #516] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19406818?utm_medium=rss Wed, 21 Oct 2015 10:32:51 UTC 19406818 Tammy Ward Hoffman [Signature #515] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19406638?utm_medium=rss Go Raiders '84

]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2015 08:57:32 UTC 19406638 Ms Cindy Harris [Signature #514] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19405985?utm_medium=rss Wed, 21 Oct 2015 02:52:09 UTC 19405985 Mr. matthew winans [Signature #513] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19405780?utm_medium=rss Decatur High School has always and will always be about tradition. Decatur has been the same way. We shouldn't change what Decatur always has been. Changing this is doing just that.

]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2015 12:41:39 UTC 19405780 Mr. Jonathan Small [Signature #512] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19405774?utm_medium=rss Decatur High School has always and will always be about tradition. Decatur has been the same way. We shouldn't change what Decatur always has been. Changing this is doing just that.

]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2015 12:36:47 UTC 19405774 Anonymous [Signature #511] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19404469?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2015 11:39:49 UTC 19404469 Larry Shirley [Signature #510] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19404428?utm_medium=rss Please do not take it down.

]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2015 10:49:19 UTC 19404428 Ms. Kimberly Davis [Signature #509] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19404378?utm_medium=rss Keep the water tower the same. Go Raiders!

]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2015 10:05:46 UTC 19404378 Mr Tyler Franks [Signature #508] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19404373?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2015 10:02:47 UTC 19404373 Mrs Patrice Thomas-Springer [Signature #507] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19404367?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2015 09:59:25 UTC 19404367 Brittney Richardson [Signature #506] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19404365?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2015 09:58:41 UTC 19404365 Mr. Joshua Gonzalez [Signature #505] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19404357?utm_medium=rss Tradition is Tradition and at Decatur High school, that is what we are all about. Tradition, Pride, Excellence. Please keep it going.

]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2015 09:50:28 UTC 19404357 Ms Chelsea I [Signature #504] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19404354?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2015 09:48:27 UTC 19404354 Ms Laura Cooper-Brookshire [Signature #503] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19404321?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2015 09:18:10 UTC 19404321 Larry Couch [Signature #502] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19404102?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2015 06:27:56 UTC 19404102 Glenda Couch [Signature #501] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19404098?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2015 06:25:58 UTC 19404098 Lindsay Page [Signature #500] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19403894?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2015 03:56:34 UTC 19403894 Kedashal Robinson [Signature #499] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19403883?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2015 03:50:09 UTC 19403883 Dr. J. Norwood Bryan [Signature #498] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19403778?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2015 02:59:49 UTC 19403778 Mrs Faye Irby [Signature #497] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19403687?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2015 02:13:20 UTC 19403687 Mr. Jim Greene [Signature #496] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19403627?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2015 01:38:11 UTC 19403627 Mrs sherry hale [Signature #495] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19403391?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2015 11:25:55 UTC 19403391 Anonymous [Signature #494] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19403346?utm_medium=rss This is a defining landmark to our city. If anything, funds should be raised to refurbish the look.

]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2015 10:50:55 UTC 19403346 Lillie Warner [Signature #493] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19403299?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2015 10:22:43 UTC 19403299 Taylor Vines [Signature #492] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19403296?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2015 10:20:42 UTC 19403296 ms jennifer wingo [Signature #491] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19403243?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2015 09:53:15 UTC 19403243 ms lisa stacy [Signature #490] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19403112?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2015 08:56:01 UTC 19403112 Susan carew [Signature #489] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19403013?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2015 07:51:03 UTC 19403013 Bonnie Waters [Signature #488] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19403011?utm_medium=rss This is tradition as well as heritage and should continue.

]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2015 07:47:28 UTC 19403011 Adam Peters [Signature #487] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402928?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2015 06:49:36 UTC 19402928 mr jeffrey cook [Signature #486] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402886?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2015 06:16:49 UTC 19402886 Mrs Lisa Ann-Marie Brown (Cook) [Signature #485] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402832?utm_medium=rss I am in the military and have traveled all over the world. However, I have never lost my Decatur High School Spirit!

In the military we are a melting pot and I have always bragged about our DHS traditions, because they always made me feel at home. Don't take this tradition away, because to some this is all we have to remember our home as we are away serving our country!

This tradition has hurt no one, instead you should be proud it has united many generations!

]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2015 05:11:14 UTC 19402832 ms. sierra powell [Signature #484] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402733?utm_medium=rss the raider sign has been on the water tower for as long as i can remember removing it would take away from part of this towns history and raider pride

]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2015 03:27:33 UTC 19402733 Katie Allen [Signature #483] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402635?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2015 01:45:48 UTC 19402635 Mr Terry Taylor [Signature #482] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402619?utm_medium=rss Leave the water tower like it has always been. You have real issues you could be dealing with instead of trying to find something to be offended about. People like y'all are the reason this country is in the shape it's in. Always got to be offended by something. Here's an idea try teaching our kids something meaningful instead of brainwashing them with liberal garbage. If people will get offended over some writing on a dang water tower that has been there for years. Then well they can just deal with it. This shouldn't even be an issue. You have more pressing problems to deal with I'm sure.

]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2015 01:31:00 UTC 19402619 Mrs. victoria tutwiler [Signature #481] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402577?utm_medium=rss I went to Hartselle high, but my husband went to Decatur. He talks of the water tower as something he remembers from highschool. I think it is a symbol of pride and would love to see it reinstated on the side.

]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2015 12:53:53 UTC 19402577 Ms Lanita Kirby [Signature #480] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402471?utm_medium=rss Keep our tradition alive,,, we love our RAIDERS

]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:59:12 UTC 19402471 Mrs Laura Stephens [Signature #479] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402460?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:48:14 UTC 19402460 Kayla Willingham [Signature #478] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402459?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:47:59 UTC 19402459 Asia Tucker [Signature #477] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402454?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:43:54 UTC 19402454 Elizabeth D. Terry [Signature #476] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402445?utm_medium=rss DHS Class of '69....GO RAIDERS on the water tower, please!

]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:36:30 UTC 19402445 mr jeffrey dugger [Signature #475] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402418?utm_medium=rss Removing go raiders from the water tower is ludicrous, it is a part of history, my years at decatur high school was the best years of my life, everyday I would walk in and out of those front doors with the giant go raiders to greet me, please do not remove it, it's is as much decatur high as anything

]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:09:56 UTC 19402418 Julia Clark [Signature #474] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402403?utm_medium=rss Go Raiders! It is a tradition. Leave it on the water tower!!

]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:00:22 UTC 19402403 Mrs Sabrina Goodner Mims [Signature #473] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402336?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 09:21:42 UTC 19402336 Keith Layton [Signature #472] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402300?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 08:58:48 UTC 19402300 Ali Ferrell [Signature #471] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402252?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 08:28:42 UTC 19402252 Carla Ross [Signature #470] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402230?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 08:13:30 UTC 19402230 Richard Smith [Signature #469] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402206?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 07:58:16 UTC 19402206 Ms Madison Emerson [Signature #468] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402191?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 07:49:42 UTC 19402191 Ms Anonymous [Signature #467] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402172?utm_medium=rss Graduated in 1964. Part of history. Keep it!!!

]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2015 07:34:02 UTC 19402172 Anonymous [Signature #466] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402170?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 07:33:01 UTC 19402170 Mr James Bentley [Signature #465] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402169?utm_medium=rss I think that go raiders should stay on the water tower. Now and forever.

]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2015 07:32:19 UTC 19402169 Mike Hudson [Signature #464] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402155?utm_medium=rss As a proud member of the DHS Class of 1970 I fully support the effort to continue the tradition of keeping "Go Raiders" on the water tower. These women who would attempt to force their misguided beliefs upon the whole community should be ashamed of themselves and be replaced at the earliest opportunity.

]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2015 07:17:46 UTC 19402155 Barbara Lawrence [Signature #463] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402151?utm_medium=rss I graduated from DHS and both my son and daughter did also. Hopefully my grandchildren will as well. GO RAIDERS!

]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2015 07:14:48 UTC 19402151 Mallory Pirkle [Signature #462] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402146?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 07:11:24 UTC 19402146 Ms Christine VanWagnen [Signature #461] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402144?utm_medium=rss GO RAIDERS

]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2015 07:09:08 UTC 19402144 Ms Whitney Lowery [Signature #460] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402140?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 07:06:24 UTC 19402140 Lauren Raibley [Signature #459] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402127?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 06:55:19 UTC 19402127 Rebecca Williams [Signature #458] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402125?utm_medium=rss Go Raiders!!
Class of '96

]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2015 06:52:55 UTC 19402125 Ms EDITH HANEY [Signature #457] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402113?utm_medium=rss I was a student at DHS when two seniors first painted the waterpower in the dark of night, much to the indignation of the principal and other school officials. What was once a sensational symbol of rebellion over the years has become a symbol of school pride, and an integral part of the visual community.

]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2015 06:37:57 UTC 19402113 JONI HALLMAN [Signature #456] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402102?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 06:30:19 UTC 19402102 Dr Anonymous [Signature #455] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402096?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 06:25:55 UTC 19402096 Molly Neill [Signature #454] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402072?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 06:10:15 UTC 19402072 Mrs Melanie Martin [Signature #453] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402071?utm_medium=rss This is a part of Decatur's history. I graduated from Austin. And I want them to be able to keep it on there. I am not in favor of an expensive digital light show in it's place.

]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2015 06:09:29 UTC 19402071 Mr.. George Cantrell [Signature #452] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402062?utm_medium=rss I grew up in Decatur and am a proud graduate of DHS, class of 1961. One of my classmates first painted the "Go Raiders" slogan on the water tower and it has endured to become a beloved backdrop for the school.
Please keep the tower as it is.
Hooray for Dan Fite!!
George Cantrell

]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2015 06:04:09 UTC 19402062 JAMES VENEIGH [Signature #451] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402059?utm_medium=rss SAVE TRADITION

]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2015 06:01:21 UTC 19402059 Tim McCollum [Signature #450] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402044?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 05:52:20 UTC 19402044 Mr Anonymous [Signature #449] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402026?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 05:38:54 UTC 19402026 Mr. Lane Potter [Signature #448] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19401984?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 05:19:27 UTC 19401984 Mrs. Vonda Sutton- Winchester [Signature #447] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19401982?utm_medium=rss KEEP THE " GO RAIDERS" ON THE WATER TOWER, you took our community pool away now you are taking away a tradition for so many citizens

]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2015 05:17:37 UTC 19401982 Katherine Scott [Signature #446] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19401980?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 05:15:50 UTC 19401980 Benjamin Hand [Signature #445] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19401977?utm_medium=rss I 100 percent agree with everything has said. As A Decatur grad, I am upset with the park committee. Every time I walk at the park, at a Red Raiders football game, or around the school, you see the Go Raiders. Take it away and what's there to look at. The Raiders softball team plays at Delano Park. We have Go Raiders there as well. What's the point of painting a water tower red when we can't put what we want up there. We are the Raiders, we want our words Go Raiders back up when the painting is done. The Raiders will do everything legally we can do to get this back. I'm protesting by not going to the Delano park anymore until they plan on putting back Go Raiders.

]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2015 05:14:47 UTC 19401977 Joe Hill [Signature #444] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19401975?utm_medium=rss GO RAIDERS Forever

]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2015 05:12:00 UTC 19401975 Crystal Dickey [Signature #443] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19401968?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 05:07:52 UTC 19401968 Wesley Perry [Signature #442] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19401957?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 04:52:58 UTC 19401957 Tonya Jones [Signature #441] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19401953?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 04:52:36 UTC 19401953 Wesley Lucas [Signature #440] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19401952?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 04:51:40 UTC 19401952 Ms Anonymous [Signature #439] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19401947?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 04:50:43 UTC 19401947 Tim Raths [Signature #438] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19401946?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 04:50:03 UTC 19401946 Mrs kaye Clemons; [Signature #437] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19401942?utm_medium=rss It is all about tradition. I am sad to see the school torn down, but that is needed. There is no valid reason that I can see for not repainting "Go Raiders" on the water tower.

]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2015 04:48:49 UTC 19401942 Ms. patricia gilliland [Signature #436] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19401935?utm_medium=rss please leave Decatur Raiders on the water tower

]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2015 04:44:35 UTC 19401935 Loyd Potter [Signature #435] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19401931?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 04:43:02 UTC 19401931 Mrs Canitha Thomas [Signature #434] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19401875?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 04:10:47 UTC 19401875 McCauley Smith [Signature #433] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19401874?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 04:10:36 UTC 19401874 Ms Marie Sartain [Signature #432] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19401854?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 04:03:48 UTC 19401854 Ms Shasta Creel [Signature #431] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19401815?utm_medium=rss Leave it the way it is! I have been living in Decatur since I was 15 leave go raiders! It's next to the school it has never offended anyone until now too much is changing we need to leave somethings the way they are! GO RAIDERS

]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2015 03:43:00 UTC 19401815 Amanda Cagle [Signature #430] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19401713?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 02:57:58 UTC 19401713 Mr Scott Rutherford [Signature #429] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19401658?utm_medium=rss It's been a tradition since I can remember in my 43 years for the water towers to have Black Bears and Raiders on them. Means a lot as students, atheletes and alumni.

]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2015 02:34:46 UTC 19401658 Mr. James Hughes [Signature #428] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19401652?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 02:31:53 UTC 19401652 Becky Pearce [Signature #427] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19401648?utm_medium=rss I was born and raised in Decatur. I attended DHS (graduated in 1973) and can't imagine the water tower without Go Raiders. Please don't change it.

]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2015 02:30:58 UTC 19401648 Jesse Holladay [Signature #426] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19401642?utm_medium=rss 1996 graduate of Decatur High School.

]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2015 02:28:06 UTC 19401642 Brittany Sneed [Signature #425] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19401639?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 02:25:23 UTC 19401639 Mr John Goosby [Signature #424] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19401632?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 02:23:55 UTC 19401632 Rebecca Mitchell [Signature #423] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19401621?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 02:16:02 UTC 19401621 Mrs Heather Douglass [Signature #422] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19401616?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 02:13:22 UTC 19401616 Alex Moses [Signature #421] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/19401605?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 02:09:07 UTC 19401605