Posted on 12/14/2023 8:48:43 AM PST by Enlightened1
A group of Republican lawmakers are attempting to stop the Pentagon from taking out a Confederate monument belonging to Arlington National Cemetery.
Led by Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA), the group of lawmakers penned a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Monday that demands he leaves the Reconciliation Monument, also known as the Confederate Memorial untouched until at least the conclusion of the fiscal year 2024 appropriations process.
The monument was set to be taken out by the Pentagon’s Naming Commission, a group formed to rename and remove military installations named after the Confederacy. This came in the wake of the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots, Fox News reports
https://x.com/blueandgray1864/status/1735023047940210936
"Despite bipartisan support for this monument, the Naming Commission, established by the Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, clearly overstepped its legislative authority when it recommended that the Department of the Army remove the Reconciliation Monument from Arlington National Cemetery," the lawmakers wrote.
The Arlington National Cemetery website confirms this removal, with a section stating that "As required by Congress and implemented by the Secretary of Defense, Arlington National Cemetery (ANC) is required to remove the Confederate Memorial located in Section 16 of ANC."
It additionally notes that a "process to prepare for the memorial's careful removal and relocation has been initiated."
Clyde said that the memorial symbolizes American unity after the Civil War rather than bringing honor to the Confederacy, and that its removal would serve to desecrate the graves of Confederate soldiers buried there.
Calls to remove monuments and statues of American historical figures are nothing new; New York City recently weighed a plot to remove George Washington statues as part of a new ‘reparations’ plan.
"[T]he Reconciliation Monument does not honor nor commemorate the Confederacy; the memorial commemorates reconciliation and national unity," the lawmakers' letter continued.
"Furthermore, the Naming Commission’s authority explicitly prohibits the desecration of grave sites. Considering the hundreds of gravestones encircling the monument, it would be impossible for these graves to remain untouched if the Department of the Army proceeds with its proposed removal of the monument – both being a clear violation of Congress’ enacted statute and legislative intent."
Clyde, who is a Navy combat veteran, penned the letter along with 43 other House Republicans, including Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-AL).
The plan is for the statue to be moved to a site owned by the Virginia Military Institute, reports Cardinal News.
"The Department of Defense must respect Congress’ clear legislative intentions regarding the Naming Commission’s legislative authority, and to move forward with removal of the Reconciliation Monument would be a clear affront to the separation of powers principles outlined by our Founding Fathers in our Constitution," the lawmakers wrote.
The Pentagon currently faces a lawsuit over the statue's planned removal from Defend Arlington, a group that represents Confederate veterans, among others.
Are they trying to erase the history that only Democrats owned slaves?
That should make Trump carry Georgia and North Carolina.
Then Pentagon is now completely "WOKE"...they have ZERO understanding of history.
I am DISGUSTED to my core about this!!!
The NEW POTUS NEEDS to clean office!!!!!!!!
THAT’S what they want the snowflakes to forget
You can thank Nikki for this.
She declared open season on history, tradition, and the honored dead.
What’s next? Dig up the Confederate soldiers? Dump their remains in the trash?
Why not burn down Robert E. Lee’s House while they are at it?............
Agreed. I will never vote for her.
“Are they trying to erase the history that only Democrats owned slaves?”
Is it actually true that only Democrats owned slaves?
May we see your data?
Taliban in the form of sleazy DemoRats. Same Vermin, different species.
We understand that democrats are ashamed that they were the slave owners, formed the KKK, established Jim Crow and fought like crazy against civil rights, but they can’t erase that by destroying memorials.
If this means that the North has decided to scrap reconciliation and kick the CSA out, I’ll support that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roVjjvUGoTA
They are trying to erase the fact that the civil war was ended and America is United and we should all get along now after a terrible war.
Someday the white man is going to say, “enough is enough”.
When the ball opens, it ain’t gonna be pretty.
Zimbabwe in reverse.
Oh, I’m a good old Rebel,
Now, that’s just what I am,
For this “fair land of freedom”
I do not care a damn.
I’m glad I fit against it —
I only wish we’d won;
And I don’t want no pardon
For anything I’ve done.
2. I hates the Constitution,
This great Republic, too;
I hates the Freedmen’s Bureau,
In uniforms of blue.
I hates the nasty eagle,
With all his brag and fuss;
But the lyin’, thievin’ Yankees,
I hates ‘em wuss and wuss.
3. I hates the Yankee nation,
And everything they do;
I hates the Declaration
Of Independence, too;
I hates the glorious Union,
‘Tis dripping with our blood;
And I hates the striped banner —
I fit it all I could.
4. I followed old Mars’ Robert
For four year, near about,
Got wounded in three places,
And starved at Pint Lookout.
I cotch the roomatism
A-campin’ in the snow,
But I killed a chance of Yankees —
And I’d like to kill some mo’.
5. Three hundred thousand Yankees
Is stiff in Southern dust;
We got three hundred thousand
Befo’ they conquered us.
They died of Southern fever
And Southern steel and shot;
And I wish it was three millions
Instead of what we got.
6. I can’t take up my musket
And fight ‘em now no mo’.
But I ain’t a-goin’ to love ‘em,
Now this is sartin sho’;
And I don’t want no pardon
For what I was and am,
And I won’t be reconstructed,
And I don’t care a damn.
Supposedly, the inspiration for this song was a Union soldier who conversed with a defeated Confederate soldier. He tried to lessen the blow of losing the war with small talk.
Apparently, this song can also be sung to Lily of the West and Lakes of Ponchartrain.
https://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/usa/godolreb.htm
First they stole the Lee Mansion. Now, they are stealing the Lee History.
Communists really love the idea of rewriting history.
So why the Hell are WE allowing this to happen? When is enough, enough?
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