Posted on 09/15/2022 6:00:38 AM PDT by Bon of Babble
A commission set up to evaluate the political correctness of the names of military bases and other sites around the nation says a memorial in Arlington National Cemetery has to go because it recognizes the Confederacy.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
It is expected to cost taxpayers about $62.4 million to do the changes the commission is requiring."
More erasure of our history.
(Photo accompanying article, BTW).
My contempt for these leftists knows no bounds.
Biden has no business even walking among the heroes in Arlington National Cemetery....
Bastards.
Apparently the woke left can do whatever they want.
He is the one that has to go.
What the hell is he doing there walking among American heroes? What a low life.
I hate, loathe and despise them.
Ummm. Arlington is where it is because it was an insult to Robert E Lee
They missed the largest monument to General Lee, his home in Arlington. Why didn’t they recommend razing it? I guess they don’t care thaaaat much.
What these people willingly ignore is that these memorials are in situ historical artifacts in themselves and that they tell a story about America and most importantly as in the case of the memorial at Arlington, they tell an important story about reconciliation between North and South after the Civil War, the eventual coalescing around a common American experience and the eventual respect between friend and foe.
I understand they are controversial (what isn’t these days) but there also is deep positive meaning behind these monuments for those who bother to ponder them. We have become so jaded and obsessed with virtue signaling that we no longer can see anything other than what we want to see.
Uh, it is located on the property of a Confederate general. Soldiers from BOTH armies were buried there, ON PURPOSE. Can’t we even leave the dead alone? These people are sick - if they hate this country so much, they should live in China or Venezuela. Besides, if you erase history, how can you learn from it?
Me thinks that the South is about to rise!
+1
And there it is. Study your history. Study every totalitarian government that has ever existed. Stalin. Mao. Hitler.
It always starts with the self proclaimed liberals/tolerant/progressive demographic until it morphs into gulags and incinerators.
Stalinism never sleeps.
EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!
We need to keep in mind where all this is going: the vilification and erasure of the father of our country, George Washington.
That is absolutely going to happen when the discovery Washington was a southern farmer is announced.
They missed the largest monument to General Lee, his home in Arlington. Why didn’t they recommend razing it? I guess they don’t care thaaaat much.
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By Leftist logic, to fully erase “bad” history, all of Arlington National Cemetery should be dug up and moved as the grounds are the former home of Gen. Lee. The house itself, obviously, must be demolished. Perhaps the ground should be salted to prevent even grass from growing.
Arlington was Lee’s plantation. Maybe they should bulldoze it and turn it into a waste treatment plant.
These wokesters are insane.
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