[ May 7, 2024 ]
This statue and others like it was never intended to be a celebration of slavery or racism. The statues of Confederate leaders and this Confederate Memorial were meant as symbols of national healing and unity. Because of that fact, there is absolutely no reason that they should come down. The reason why anyone wants them gone is precisely because the left wants to destroy our national unity today, and create divisions and hatreds that will justify further encroachments upon our freedoms in the name of restoring order. They want to destroy the United States, that’s why they want to destroy these monuments.
“Former Senator Makes Plea To Save Arlington Cemetery’s Confederate Monument,” by Gretchen Clayson, Daily Caller, August 19, 2023:
A former Democratic Virginia senator made a plea to preserve the Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery, arguing that from the time it was first commissioned, it was a symbol of national healing.
Story continues below advertisementJim Webb penned an op-ed Friday in the Wall Street Journal urging lawmakers to reconsider plans to remove a large bronze statue commemorating the Confederate dead at the cemetery. The memorial was commissioned in 1898 by President William McKinley and born from a newly discovered sense of national unity in the days following the end of the Spanish-American war, he argued….
During the Spanish-American War, the American flag once again flew proudly in states that had seceded from the Union and former Confederate soldiers donned the “once-hated Yankee blue” to fight for their newly unified country. McKinley, who served in the 23rd Ohio Infantry during the Civil War, chose to further the growing sense of national reconciliation by honoring the Confederate dead.
“In the spirit of fraternity we should share with you in the care of the graves of Confederate soldiers,” McKinley announced in Atlanta in 1898. In 1900, Congress authorized Confederate remains to be reinterred at Arlington National Cemetery in a space designated for them and watched over by a bronze memorial sculpted by renowned artist Moses Jacob Ezekiel….
Ezekiel, a Confederate veteran and the first Jewish graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, finished his “crowning achievement” in 1914 and was buried at its base in 1921, according to Arlington National Cemetery.
Following the demonstration in Charlottesville in 2017 over the removal of another one of Ezekiel’s sculptures — that of Robert E. Lee — Ezekiel’s descendants penned a letter asking for his memorial in Arlington to be removed, BBC News reported.
“As proud as our family may be of Moses’s artistic prowess, we — some twenty Ezekiels — say remove that statue. Take it out of its honored spot in Arlington National Cemetery and put it in a museum that makes clear its oppressive history.”…
“If [the memorial] is taken apart and removed, leaving behind a concrete slab, the burial marker of its creator, and a small circle of graves,” Webb warned, a symbol of national unity and reconciliation would be lost. Its removal would send a message — not of national unity, but of “a deteriorating society willing to erase the generosity of its past, in favor of bitterness and misunderstanding conjured up by those who do not understand the history they seem bent on destroying,” he stated.
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8 Comments
8 months ago
The oeft seems determined to start another civil war.
8 months ago
None of the monuments, or statues, except those of the communists, dictators, and POS like G floyd should have ever been removed. What should have been removed are the progressive, commie, demoncraps, who were calling for their removal and the ones who were physically removing the statues and monuments.
8 months ago
Their goal is remove all history so all connection to past denied to future that even survives oddly no call to remove Alfred pike as he was a satanist democrats love. No big head on one dollar as Satan eye in pyramid must remain.
8 months ago
It is fact that Communists destroy national culture and history to make it easier for them to bring their filth, poverty, ignorance, looting and ruin.
Everyone should realize during the Civil War the dead were not transported back to their homes. Thus, in many cities a memorial was erected to honor those who fought/died for the Confederacy.
The anti-American 80 IQ Lefties won’t even let the dead rest in peace. Allowing these cheap politicians to destroy American historical monuments is the work of nitwits and a crime. It is up to the rest of us to preserve our history.
8 months ago
A disgrace to remove the statue. If they remove anything it shoukd be the few Nazi soldiers buried at Arlington. With swastikas engraved on the headstones written with their allegiance to the fuhrer and the third reich.
8 months ago
Shame on Ezekiel’s decendants
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8 months ago
Damn these people. The same ones lobbying to tea down statutes are the same ones lobbying to save Al Capone Florida Mansion. “so as to see where we have been and how far we have come. I think there is a law they cannot disturb veterans graves and symbols. Yes the confederate soldiers are considered U.S. Veterans and guaranteed those protections. Oh wait………the shit on our veterans this very day. Never mine.
