Arlington National Cemetery Wants to Know What You Think About Removing Its Confederate Memorial
ERASING HISTORY REMOVING HISTORY IS FOR FOOLS!
Arlington National Cemetery Wants to Know What You Think About Removing Its Confederate Memorial
ARLINGTON by Trace Adkins CLICK NO MATTER WHICH SIDE THESE AMERICANS FOUGHT ON THEY DESERVE TO BE HONORED.
In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson unveiled the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. Created by Confederate veteran Moses Jacob Ezekiel, the 32-foot-tall monument features a large bronze statue of a woman holding a laurel wreath, a plow stock, and a pruning hook, representing "the South," atop a granite base.
On that base is the Biblical verse," And they shall beat their swords into plough-shares and their spears into pruning hooks." It also features images from both mythology and those of Southern soldiers and civilians. These include a Black slave woman holding a white soldier's baby, along with a life-size image of an enslaved man following his owner off to war, among others.
"The elaborately designed monument offers a nostalgic, mythologized vision of the Confederacy, including highly sanitized depictions of slavery," according to the Arlington National Cemetery website.
In 2021, Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act, which included a provision for the creation of the Naming Commission, which directs the defense secretary to "remove all names, symbols, displays, monuments and paraphernalia that honor or commemorate the Confederate States of America ... or any person who served voluntarily with the Confederate States of America from all assets of the Department of Defense."
As part of that provision, Arlington National Cemetery is preparing to remove the Confederate Memorial, which sits at the center of the cemetery's Confederate section.
Public Comment Form - Arlington National Cemetery: Confederate Memorial Removal Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) To comment CLICK HERE.
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It would take another 14 years for private groups (including Union veteran organizations) to raise the money and erect the Confederate memorial that stands in Arlington today. Anyone who has seen it knows that it reflects the sentiments of reconciliation and national unity that McKinley originally had in mind.
THOSE WHO WOULD ERASE HISTORY, ARE ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT, THE LESSONS LEARNED!
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May they all Rest in Peace, Memory, and History.
I signed. Whether one believes the sky is Gray or Blue is not the true question but that one is willing to sacrifice their life to Honor their beliefs is what Arlington National Cemetery is about. Americans fought on both sides of the Civil War, let us not forget that.
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