LEXINGTON – A statue honoring doughboys – a nickname for U.S. soldiers who fought in World War I – stands on the Lafayette County Courthouse Square, with new plaques naming all the Wentworth Military Academy cadets killed in war. The statue almost became a casualty of war. A courtroom war waged over money. Claimed by a bank and by academy alumni, the statue could have been auctioned and shipped off, never to be seen again by the hundreds of male and female cadets educated at Wentworth. But alumni leaders decided “no soldier left behind” should apply to the doughboy that had stood for nearly a century on the school grounds. “The statue originally was a tribute on the Wentworth Military Academy’s campus to Wentworth alumni who died in the First World War, and it became an iconic image at the school,” Wentworth Military Academy Museum Chairman George Hittner said. Dedicated in 1923 in memory of the 16 Wentworth cadets who died in World War I, the doughboy later came to represent…