Virginia ? The swashbuckling sea captain who helped found America’s first permanent English settlement lost his right arm in battle nearly two decades earlier – but you wouldn’t know it to look at the two-armed statue on the campus of the university named for him.

Some annoyed and angry alumni and history buffs want the monument to get the hook – the prosthetic that Christopher Newport is believed to have used 400 years ago.

The pair of arms on 24-foot bronze statue shows a lack of respect for history, said Andy Kiser of Winchester, a 1995 graduate of Christopher Newport University who studied colonial Virginia.

That’s especially galling, Kiser said, in a part of Virginia filled with historic attractions, such as Colonial Williamsburg, and at a time when Jamestown is commemorating its 400th anniversary.

“In the middle of a community that tries so hard to get it right, here’s a 4-ton ‘Oops, we got it wrong,”‘ he said.