Removal of Confederate Monuments

[David Lockmiller]

(12-19-2023 09:44 AM)Gene C Wrote:  I'm postponing my tantrum to see how this all plays out

From FOX News - https://www.foxnews.com/us/confederate-m...dges-order

Judge Halts Removal of Confederate Memorial at Arlington Cemetery
New York Times
12/19/2023

More than 40 Republican members of Congress signed a letter last week demanding that Lloyd J. Austin III, the defense secretary, stop the removal of the monument. They argued that the memorial did not commemorate the Confederate States of America but rather the “reconciliation and national unity” between North and South.

The memorial, they wrote, was commissioned by the government to honor the “country’s shared reconciliation from its troubled divisions” and complemented a previous gesture in which Confederate remains were relocated to the national cemetery.

The memorial features a woman who represents the American South standing atop a 32-foot pedestal, according to the cemetery. Near the base are dozens of life-size Confederate soldiers alongside mythical gods and two enslaved African Americans.
One is a “mammy” holding the child of a Confederate officer, and the other is a man “following his owner to war,” according to the cemetery’s description.