Posted on 08/06/2025 4:50:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Restoring a memorial to the Confederacy that was removed from Arlington National Cemetery at the recommendation of Congress will cost roughly $10 million total, a U.S. Army official said Wednesday — the latest development in a Trump administration effort to combat what it calls “erasing American history.”
Once back in the cemetery, the monument — described a few years ago as “problematic from top to bottom” — will also feature panels nearby that will offer context about its history, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity about a project still in progress.
The Pentagon expects it to take about two years to restore the monument to its original site, the official told The Associated Press. The base that it sat on needs to be replaced and the monument itself will be refurbished as well.
On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the Pentagon would reinstall the memorial at Arlington — an expanse just outside Washington that once contained the land of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee — less than two years after it was removed on the recommendation of an independent commission.
On social media Tuesday, Hegseth said the Arlington statue “never should have been taken down by woke lemmings. Unlike the Left, we don’t believe in erasing American history — we honor it.”
It was erected more than a century ago
The Confederate monument, erected in 1914, was the creation of sculptor and Confederate veteran Moses Ezekiel. It features a classical female figure, crowned with olive leaves, representing the American South, alongside sanitized depictions of slavery.
In 2022, a congressionally mandated commission recommended that the memorial, along with scores of other military assets that bore Confederate references, be either removed...
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Well worth undoing some of the damage done by the American Taliban.
Bill the DNC. These were their boys, right?
It’s a beautiful monument.
Ask for private donations. That would take care of it if the organization didn’t take too much off the top.
Only $10 million?
Biden spent over $500 Billion putting illegals in posh hotels across the country and putting tax payer dollars in their pockets.
Do we know who did it?
They should be in jail.
Fine BLM for the bill.
The article says that it was “removed from Arlington National Cemetery at the recommendation of Congress”.
Find out which of them voted for removal, then fund the restoration from their paychecks — of those who still are there.
I think it’s Soros doing the funding of those thugs. Take it out of his bank account, or put a lien on one of his properties.
Only democrats. Want to erase history, it’s their history.
Trump will do it under budget and in a year
Make the Democrat members of Congress pay for the restoration OUT OF THEIR OWN POCKETS!!!
Ballad the BLM and DNC.
It is always easier to destroy than to build.
Paid for by graft stopped via USAID.
I call Barbara Streisand on the $10 million figure. Someone threw that out there just to discourage the move to restore the monument.
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