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Union Daughters Support Restoring Arlington Monument
The New American ^ | August 4, 2025 | Steve Byas

Posted on 08/04/2025 10:36:02 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

A call to restore the Reconciliation Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery at the national convention of the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War this past weekend is the latest example of the pushback on Marxist efforts to divide Americans.

The Reconciliation Monument (officially known as the Confederate Memorial) was erected more than 100 years ago, surrounded by graves of Confederate soldiers, as part of the effort to reunite the country after the Civil War, which took the lives of about three-quarters of a million Americans. Unfortunately, the monument was removed in late 2023 as yet another part of the “Cultural Revolution” sweeping America. Marxists and their dupes desire to erase history, create division instead of unity in the country, and advance a political agenda designed to promote their radical vision for the future.

Fortunately, many Americans, such as the Daughters of Union Veterans (DUV), refuse to look at our nation’s history through the grid of Marxist conflict theory, which views all of history as a class struggle. It is a vision that is at least as old as the bloody French Revolution and the radical societies that precipitated it. The French radicals wanted to eliminate the structures of French society, such as the law code, the calendar, and even playing cards. Their particular target was religion, especially Christianity. They had no desire for “reconciliation,” and their ideological descendants today have the same goal: destroy existing society and replace it with a Marxist one.

The Resolution

The DUV resolution noted that the monument was part of a larger movement to “commemorate national reconciliation after the war and stood as a symbol of peace, healing, and unity among Americans.”

The resolution added that the monument at Arlington was supported by multiple U.S. presidents and prominent Union veterans groups, including...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: antifa; arlington; confederatememorial; greatestpresident; maga; reconciliation; statues; thecivilwar
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1 posted on 08/04/2025 10:36:02 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Agree it should be restored as well as any Confederate Statues of long standing. They bled, too.


2 posted on 08/04/2025 10:44:16 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That definitely should have already been restored. Get on that and get it done.


3 posted on 08/04/2025 10:49:30 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I consider the reconciliation of the North and South after the war and for the following 100 years, one of the great post war happenings of history, that it showed the greatness of America and Americans, we were always proud of it.

Who could have guessed that in the 21st century so much effort would be devoted to undoing it all and to stir deadly, hateful passions in people many generations from it, in a population of which most are post war immigration people anyway, and in a population of Americans who don’t even know anything about the war, just that they are supposed to hate right now, someone, for something, and take to the streets with sledge hammers and pulling ropes.


4 posted on 08/04/2025 10:50:22 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Of course they approve. And they should. Animus should not be driven by racist government officials as it has been 12 out of the last 26 years.

If these men can shake hands and recognize each other as Americans, the rest of us damn well should be able to as well.

5 posted on 08/04/2025 10:52:09 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Second that.

It’s a touching memorial and a lesson for Americans and the rest of the world.


6 posted on 08/04/2025 10:54:28 AM PDT by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The decision to allow the “Wayward Sisters” to return with honor intact was one of the smartest (and rarest) ends to a civil war in history.

The decision to undo that was a disgrace, and foolish besides.


7 posted on 08/04/2025 10:56:18 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Arlington National Cemetery is maintained by the Department of the Army. Defense Secretary Hegseth needs only to give the order to restore the monument to its former location in the cemetery.
8 posted on 08/04/2025 11:00:05 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This reconciliation business sounds good. However, the end result was the return of southern Democratic political power and racial suppression for many decades to come afterwards.

Indeed, the Daughters of the Confederacy were the primary ‘foot soldiers’ in creating the mythology that allowed this ‘reconciliation’ that returned political power to the old school Democratic powers that caused the mess to begin with - with nonsensical concepts like a grand “Lost Cause” and “Noble Cause”.

They even managed to coopt the Sons of Union Veterans into this nonsense - reconciliation of old foes.

Reconciliation of individuals - not reconciliation to the immoral reason for the conflict.


9 posted on 08/04/2025 11:44:22 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: Sacajaweau

Sadly our county removed the Confederate Soldier statue that has stood on the County seat Square for decades till some dork damaged it several years back.


10 posted on 08/04/2025 12:03:12 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( )
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To: Sacajaweau

Absolutely! Truth be known, those guys depicted in the Confederate Statues were doing more to honor the spirit of the US Constitution than their northern counterparts! It’s real hard trying to convince idiots that propaganda wars did not just happen in the twentieth century. The history books were written by the victors; if you want the truth, go to original documents.


11 posted on 08/04/2025 12:08:46 PM PDT by Segovia (https://townhall.com/columnists/kevinmccullough/2025/07/06/fossil-fooled-lives-vs-lies-n2659950)
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To: larrytown

see post above, it appears it’s you I’m describing.


12 posted on 08/04/2025 12:13:14 PM PDT by Segovia (https://townhall.com/columnists/kevinmccullough/2025/07/06/fossil-fooled-lives-vs-lies-n2659950)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

bump


13 posted on 08/04/2025 12:16:12 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (If [mortals] are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it? —Benjamin Franklin)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

DJT and SECDEF, get it done!!


14 posted on 08/04/2025 12:19:22 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: ansel12

Absolutely right. The great spirit of reconciliation that led to so many reunions, monuments and installation names completely vanished in just a couple of years starting in 2020. Let’s hope President Trump is listening to these calls for this monument to be restored.


15 posted on 08/04/2025 12:32:48 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: larrytown

The South was punished with denial of voting rights until 1876. The Radical Republicans of that day were intent on punishing the South. This fueled the rise of the Southern Democrat Party.


16 posted on 08/04/2025 12:36:31 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: Sacajaweau
Agree it should be restored as well as any Confederate Statues of long standing. They bled, too.

Yes they did...

17 posted on 08/04/2025 12:37:14 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Why can't you tickle yourself?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Apparently the base is still there, and the statue not destroyed. Unlike the statue of Lee in Charlotte that black activists gleefully sent to the foundry
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_Memorial_(Arlington_National_Cemetery)


18 posted on 08/04/2025 12:38:11 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: WashingtonSource

“”””’This fueled the rise of the Southern Democrat Party.”””””

Was that one different from the one that formed the confederacy and fought the Civil War?


19 posted on 08/04/2025 12:41:37 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Hot Tabasco; All

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LtuR2tE4h4


20 posted on 08/04/2025 12:50:51 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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