Arlington National Cemetery required to
remove its Confederate Memorial, wants
to hear from public
DC News Now [Washington DC],
by
Max Marcilla
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
8/24/2023 1:12:52 PM
ARLINGTON, Va. — On Wednesday night, Arlington National Cemetery held a virtual public scope meeting to discuss the proposed removal of the Confederate Memorial that has stood in Section 16 of the burial site for more than 100 years. It’s the latest step before removal, which the cemetery said is required by Congressional action, after the governing body approved the founding of the Naming Commission. (Snip) The 30-foot bronze statue stands atop a three-foot granite pedestal. The female figure at the top represents the Confederacy. It is a “nostalgic, mythologized version of the Confederacy, including highly sanitized depictions of slavery,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 8/24/2023 1:22:54 PM (No. 1541520)
Its ironic that the nation wants to remove a confederate memorial from the land the Union stoled from a confederate woman, Mrs. Robert E. Lee. It was her land that Lincoln stoled. Please remove all graves as they are committed on Confederate soil!
28 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 8/24/2023 1:28:42 PM (No. 1541524)
Leave the Confederate Memorial alone! In removing it, Arlington will confirm the brokenness of the United States. Let the dead bury the dead. Let the living leave them ALONE! The current one is not the ONLY generation. The Creator could turn it all off at any time of His choosing.
37 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
danu 8/24/2023 1:34:49 PM (No. 1541529)
re-play of the pelosi pig fest. tell them to shut it, and go home to their basements.
12 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Thos Weatherby 8/24/2023 1:40:20 PM (No. 1541532)
It's always better to remember how things were instead of .
9 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
mifla 8/24/2023 1:50:24 PM (No. 1541537)
Robert Byrd was a member of the KKK. Tear down all the buildings named after him.
45 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 8/24/2023 2:05:53 PM (No. 1541547)
More of the Democrat plans to change history and remove all proof about how they are the only real insurrectionists.
16 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
weirdone 8/24/2023 2:17:20 PM (No. 1541554)
I find it disgusting that the powers that be knuckle under to the insanity these self-righteous morons. There is no way to combat their ridicules woke agenda unless you have courage to tell them to go pound sand.
18 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
rememberwhen 8/24/2023 2:18:56 PM (No. 1541556)
What Congressional action requires this?
10 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
raspberry 8/24/2023 2:19:12 PM (No. 1541557)
I was born and raised a Yankie, but the more I see this Leftist nonsense the more I want to be a Confederate.
22 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
PostAway 8/24/2023 2:45:37 PM (No. 1541567)
“Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we’re going to have to change our traditions, our history; we’re going to have to move into a different place as a nation.” Michelle Obama, 2008
10 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 8/24/2023 2:48:36 PM (No. 1541570)
It should remain in place, absolutely so.
21 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
chumley 8/24/2023 2:56:51 PM (No. 1541577)
How is this any different than the taliban destroying everything non-moslem? It isnt. Its exactly the same.
And its not like the Union was these great and honorable warriors. I've been researching my local area and found a family of graves that were filled by yankees who wanted the guys crops, his livestock and his wife.
15 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
BarryNo 8/24/2023 3:08:14 PM (No. 1541583)
Good or bad, they were Americans. They have descendants. You're going to shame them now? Are you going to dig up Graves? Just recall the most racist of individuals were members of the Democrat party. Still are, even if their focus has changed. "D" should stand for the "Division, Defamation and Desecration Party"
You pitiful selfish pigs.
23 people like this.
This is beautiful memorial in the back of Arlington near Fort Myer.It is as much a monument to peace as it is to the Confederacy. It is surrounded by the graves of Confederate veterans and their headstones differ from the rounded US headstones in that they come to a point- “so some damn Yankee won’t sit on them “.
Pray for a Republican victory in 2024 to stop this nonsense.
17 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 8/24/2023 4:01:20 PM (No. 1541628)
Horrible mistake. Nuts. What is the country coming to. Remove the President, not the memorial.
9 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
GlueHorse 8/24/2023 4:18:56 PM (No. 1541633)
It the guise of being politically correct, we are cancelling our history as if it never happened, that slavery did not occur, and any reference to it is conducive to aiding and abetting more slavery? Ludicrous. All wars are painful. If they weren't, we would not try to avoid them. Might as well shut down Auschwitz so we don't ever remember the slave camps and the final solution.
12 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
Rather Read 8/24/2023 5:00:16 PM (No. 1541653)
Well this American thinks you history-hating Taliban wannabes are going to tear it down no matter what. I really despise you.
8 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
volksford 8/24/2023 5:27:31 PM (No. 1541666)
I used to hear a saying from northerners.... " they are still fighting the civil war ".. now who is still fighting the Civil War?
4 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
smokincol 8/24/2023 5:35:16 PM (No. 1541670)
leave Arlington alone and let the dear rest in peace and for whomever made this decision to remove this monument, may you have a hideous death of pain an suffering until the day God decides you've had enough
7 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
Venturer 8/24/2023 7:11:47 PM (No. 1541701)
What difference does it make what any white man much less a Southron white man has to say.
The Negro's are offended, that is all that matters.
4 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
Laotzu 8/24/2023 7:19:45 PM (No. 1541703)
Can we please finally remove the last remaining monument to the Confederacy -- the Democrat Party?
13 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 8/24/2023 7:44:13 PM (No. 1541726)
No
3 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
Penney 8/24/2023 8:49:29 PM (No. 1541769)
The current dem party never seems never to tire of trying to bulldoze America the Beautiful into oblivion. They are anything but subtle with their hate.
6 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
downnout 8/24/2023 9:04:15 PM (No. 1541774)
It isn’t enough that Arlington was the home of Robert E. Lee. Now they want to purge any vestige of the Confederacy. I say NO. Leftists continue to try to rewrite history.
6 people like this.
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