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Charlottesville’s Lee statue meets its end, in a 2,250-degree furnace
Washington Post ^ | October 1626, 2023 | Teo Armus, Hadley Green

Posted on 10/26/2023 7:08:51 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie

SOMEWHERE IN THE U.S. SOUTH — It was a choice to melt down Robert E. Lee. But it would have been a choice to keep him intact, too.

So the statue of the Confederate general that once stood in Charlottesville — the one that prompted the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in 2017 — was now being cut into fragments and dropped into a furnace, dissolving into a sludge of glowing bronze.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


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KEYWORDS: charlottesville; execution; lee; searchworks
Leftists celebrate decapitation of General Lee and his horse. Perfectly happy to rewrite history, and destroy historic statue.
1 posted on 10/26/2023 7:08:51 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: The_Media_never_lie

American Taliban.


2 posted on 10/26/2023 7:09:23 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( )
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To: The_Media_never_lie

How communist of them.


3 posted on 10/26/2023 7:10:19 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Bastards! Vandals! Visigoths!


4 posted on 10/26/2023 7:10:59 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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Disgusting.

Now do it with all the Saint George Floyd monuments.


5 posted on 10/26/2023 7:11:25 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Where they burn statues, people are next.


6 posted on 10/26/2023 7:13:44 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Then Governor Nikki Haley began the process of destroying Confederate memorials in 2015 when she removed the Confederate flag from the grounds of the South Carolina state capitol. Lindsay Graham and Tim Scott, South Carolina’s two Republican Senators, supported her decision.


7 posted on 10/26/2023 7:14:48 PM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on )
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Communists erasing history. It’s what they do.


8 posted on 10/26/2023 7:16:06 PM PDT by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Never be slave in a new Socialist America )
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To: Soul of the South

I don’t think Scott was a senator then.


9 posted on 10/26/2023 7:16:20 PM PDT by Reily (!!)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Video here
Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee statue melted down in a furnace by the Black History Museum in Charlottesville
https://rumble.com/v3rw00d-charlottesvilles-robert-e.-lee-statue-melted-down-in-a-furnace.html


10 posted on 10/26/2023 7:17:42 PM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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