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Judge issues order keeping Confederate memorial at Arlington Cemetery
AP via Yahoo ^ | 12 18 2023 | Matthew Barakat

Posted on 12/18/2023 2:28:02 PM PST by yesthatjallen

FALLS CHURCH, Va. — A federal judge on Monday issued a temporary restraining order barring removal of a memorial to Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery.

A group called Defend Arlington, affiliated with a group called Save Southern Heritage Florida, filed a lawsuit Sunday in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, seeking the restraining order. A hearing has been scheduled for Wednesday.

Work to remove the memorial had begun Monday before the restraining order was issued, but the memorial remains in place on cemetery grounds.

A cemetery spokesperson said Monday that Arlington is complying with the restraining order, but referred all other questions to the Justice Department.

The cemetery had said on Friday that it expected to complete the removal this week. It said the removal was required by Congress, and that it was complying with environmental and historic-preservation regulations.

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To: for-q-clinton

“Democrats don’t want people to remember they are the ones that fought and died to protect slavery.”

I thought both sides in the war were fighting to protect and defend pro-slavery constitutions.


41 posted on 12/18/2023 6:00:23 PM PST by jeffersondem
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To: yesthatjallen
Robert-E-Lee
42 posted on 12/18/2023 6:07:56 PM PST by PGR88
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To: yesthatjallen

It is well known that the sculptor, Moses Jacob Ezekiel, was Jewish.

I can’t help but wonder - with antisemitism sweeping hot through the democrat party, military, and elites in general - how much that factored into the desire to eradicate the artwork from easy public viewing.

It seems the attacks on Confederate history have been coordinated by powerful forces. This at a time when important university presidents find it hard to disagree with calls for genocide against Jews. There are few coincidences.


43 posted on 12/18/2023 6:15:54 PM PST by jeffersondem
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To: JSM_Liberty

Especially in this case. Arlington Cemetery was donated by the family of Robert E. Lee as an act of reconciliation after the Civil War.


44 posted on 12/18/2023 7:13:58 PM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Vigilanteman

“Especially in this case. Arlington Cemetery was donated by the family of Robert E. Lee as an act of reconciliation after the Civil War.”

Really not the case. The Lee family sued in Federal Court for the seizure of the property. In the 1880s. the Supreme Court said the seizure of the Lee Estate was illegal. They ordered the Government to return the property to the Lee heirs. The property was deed to the Lee heirs. The heirs then sold the property to the Government for $150,000 dollars.


45 posted on 12/18/2023 8:46:10 PM PST by Bull Snipe
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To: XRdsRev

There is still a large section of Confederate graves at Gettysburg...And marked as such....


46 posted on 12/19/2023 5:28:11 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: yesthatjallen

I object to moving it. but if they do move it to New Market, Virginia, that’s where my mothers family was from. 3 or 4 great grand Paps served Virginia.Glad they all survived.
Larry


47 posted on 12/19/2023 5:57:34 AM PST by larryjohnson (FReepersonaltrainer)
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To: JSM_Liberty

There were no winners in the American civil war


48 posted on 12/19/2023 8:13:21 AM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: JBW1949

“There is still a large section of Confederate graves at Gettysburg...And marked as such....”

I thin you might be thinking of a different battlefield. At Gettysburg there are no marked Confederate graves remaining. Over 3000 Confederate dead were removed in the summer of 1872 and more before and after that.

Crews were pretty diligent in removing all the Confederate dead that could be located from the battlefield and field hospital sites and shipping them to southern cemeteries for reinternment. There are undoubtedly some Confederate still buried on the field in unmarked graves. The last human remains found were at the Railroad Cut on the 1st days battlefield. These remains were found in 1996 but it could not be determined if they were Union or Confederate and they were interred in the National cemetery as “Unknown Civil War Remains”.

There are at least two Confederates buried in the National cemetery but they were misidentified as Federal soldiers.


49 posted on 12/19/2023 2:11:39 PM PST by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, Trump supporter, murdered in 2020)
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To: XRdsRev

Civil War Era National Cemeteries - Gettysburg

National Park Service (.gov)
https://www.nps.gov › gettysburg_national_cemetery
A few Confederates do remain interred at Gettysburg National Cemetery.


50 posted on 12/19/2023 2:34:00 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: XRdsRev

It’s been so long since I was there, but I think I remember a small area (not in the National Cemetery, but close by) that had a sign stating Confederate graves...

Like I said, it’s been a long time so I’m probably mistaken...


51 posted on 12/19/2023 2:48:42 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: JBW1949

Two Confederates are buried in the National Cemetery and both were mistakenly identified as Union dead when they were interred.

The overseer of the National cemetery was adamant that no Confederates would be buried on the grounds which were reserved for United States soldiers only.


52 posted on 12/19/2023 6:13:41 PM PST by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, Trump supporter, murdered in 2020)
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To: XRdsRev

It was later found out that there were more Confederate dead buried at Arlington by mistake, and they were later reburied in a special section about the time this monument was commissioned, the monument becoming the centerpiece of the Confederate section.


53 posted on 12/19/2023 6:24:47 PM PST by x
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