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  • Restoration of torn-down Confederate monument will cost $10 million over 2 years, military says

    08/06/2025 4:50:00 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 30 replies
    AP News ^ | Updated 5:05 PM CDT, August 6, 2025 | Konstantin Toropin
    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...
  • Union Daughters Support Restoring Arlington Monument

    08/04/2025 10:36:02 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 43 replies
    The New American ^ | August 4, 2025 | Steve Byas
    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...
  • Car explodes in Washington DC as black smoke billows through sky

    06/29/2025 11:40:09 AM PDT · by fruser1 · 81 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 6/29/2025 | Nic White
    A witness said it was a black Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van that went up in flames after the explosion on 23rd Street South in Arlington, Virginia. The cause of the explosion is unknown but nearby buildings did not catch fire. The smoke could be seen from the other side of the city in the northeast suburbs. More to come.
  • Man Dies At Scene After Trying to Rob Off-Duty Officer’s Property

    06/17/2025 7:52:54 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 14 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 06/17/2025 | AWR Hawkins
    An unidentified man died at the scene after allegedly trying to rob an off-duty officer’s property in Weatherford, Texas, and being shot dead by that officer. NBC DFW reported that the incident occurred around 1 p.m. in a warehouse which belonged to the off-duty officer. CBS News noted that the Texas Department of Public Safety indicated “a business was being burglarized… and the business owner stopped the burglary.” The 0ff-duty officer works in Arlington, Texas, and is now on leave while an investigation into the incident takes place. The officer was not injured in the incident.
  • Trump honors fallen soldiers at Arlington, calling them ‘America’s best and bravest’

    05/26/2025 12:05:41 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 7 replies
    AP News ^ | Updated 12:19 PM CDT, May 26, 2025 | SEUNG MIN KIM
    ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — President Donald Trump honored fallen service members during a Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, calling them “great, great warriors” who were “America’s best and bravest.” “We just revere their incredible legacy.” Trump said. “We salute them in their eternal and everlasting glory. And we continue our relentless pursuit of America’s destiny as we make our nation stronger, prouder, freer, and greater than ever before.” Trump’s speech veered briefly into the political, referring to the republic “that I am fixing after a long and hard four years.” He said that on this commemorative...
  • My Solemn Meeting on Veterans Day With President Obama at My Friend's Resting Place in Arlington

    11/13/2009 10:44:50 AM PST · by kristinn · 60 replies · 3,057+ views
    New York Daily News ^ | Thursday, November 12, 2009 | James Gordon Meek
    He didn't introduce himself. He didn't have to. President Obama simply stuck out his hand and asked for my name as he stepped toward me amid a bone-chilling drizzle in the Gardens of Stone. This was Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery. I wasn't there as a reporter, but to visit some friends and family buried there when Obama made an unscheduled stop - a rare presidential walk among what Lincoln called America's "honored dead" - after laying a Veterans Day wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns. What I got was an unexpected look into the eyes of a...
  • Laos Hmong leader Vang Pao denied Arlington burial

    02/04/2011 8:38:33 PM PST · by Racehorse · 49 replies
    BBC News ^ | 4 February 2011
    The US Army has rejected a request for ethnic Hmong leader Vang Pao to be buried with full military honours in Arlington National Cemetery. Gen Pao led a 15-year CIA-sponsored secret war in Laos during the Vietnam War and, when it was lost, led tens of thousands of his people into exile. He died last month. The army's decision came as mourners attended the first day of a six-day funeral in California. Gen Pao's friends said they would appeal to the White House. "Obviously to everyone who is here today to honour Gen Vang Pao, this is very disappointing," said...
  • THE CHANGING OF THE GUARD (plus 'THE SEARCH FOR SGT DRAKE')

    11/11/2024 10:35:38 AM PST · by doug from upland · 3 replies
    Arlington Cemetery; DFU ^ | 11-11-24 | Govt (plus DFU poem)
    The military guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is changed in an elaborate ceremony which happens every hour on the hour from October 1 through March 31, and every half hour from April 1 through September 30.
  • Remains of WWII soldier killed nearly 80 years ago in France identified, to be reburied at national cemetery

    10/26/2024 6:42:45 PM PDT · by Kartographer · 10 replies
    Fox News ^ | Martha MacCallum
    A World War II soldier who was killed in the mountains of France during a German offensive in 1944 has been identified, and his remains will be reburied at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, military officials said this week. Jeremiah P. Mahoney, 19, of Chicago, was killed on Jan. 17, 1945, in the Vosges Mountains of France during a weeks-long battle.
  • DOD ordered to turn over records from Trump's Arlington National Cemetery incident

    10/23/2024 8:11:19 AM PDT · by Alas Babylon! · 43 replies
    ABC News via MSN ^ | 23 October 2024 | ABC News
    A federal judge has ordered the Department of Defense to turn over records related to former President Donald Trump's controversial visit to Arlington National Cemetery – meaning the public could soon see the incident report concerning an alleged altercation between Trump campaign officials and a cemetery employee. American Oversight, a watchdog group filed a Freedom of Information lawsuit against DOD to obtain the incident report of the alleged Aug. 26 incident involving a member of Trump's campaign and the cemetery staff member. ABC News has previously reported that there was a physical and verbal altercation between a Trump campaign official...
  • NEW HOAX JUST DROPPED!! (Arlington media fiasco)

    09/04/2024 9:16:50 AM PDT · by Republican Wildcat · 17 replies
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  • Can Gold Star Families Saddle Kamala Harris With Biden's Afghanistan Baggage?

    09/02/2024 4:17:17 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 33 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 9/2/24 | Jesus Mesa
    One of the first major pitfalls of Kamala Harris' young campaign seemed to materialize over the holiday weekend, as her team traded barbs with the Trump camp over accusations of disrespecting the military. Harris first accused Trump of staging a "political stunt" during a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, intended to honor service members killed in the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal.
  • Gold Star families slam Kamala Harris for 'playing politics' over Trump's visit to Arlington National Cemetery

    09/02/2024 10:01:39 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 16 replies
    Fox News ^ | 9/1/24 | Andrea Vacchiano Fox News
    Gold Star father said that Harris' statement was 'heinous, vile and disgusting Gold Star families who lost loved ones in the botched Afghanistan withdrawal blasted Vice President Kamala Harris over her attack on former President Trump for his controversial visit to Arlington National Cemetery last week. Harris accused Trump of playing politics with the Monday visit, but in a series of short videos, eight families said they had invited Trump, and bitterly blasted the Biden-Harris administration over the disastrous pullout that left 13 U.S. service members dead three years ago. The messages, each featuring different parents of service members killed...
  • Harris attacks Trump for his Arlington visit with Gold Star families: multiple left-wing casualties ensue

    09/02/2024 7:16:29 AM PDT · by Starman417 · 23 replies
    Flopping Aces ^ | 09-01-24 | DrJohn
    On August 26, 2021, 13 service members were killed by bomb during the Biden/Harris panic withdrawal from Afghanistan. Three years later Gold Star families invited Donald Trump to participate in commemoration of their losses. Kamala Harris took a cheap shot at Trump for his visit: Vice President Kamala Harris slammed former President Donald Trump’s controversial photo-op at Arlington National Cemetery with Gold Star families on Monday, claiming he “disrespected sacred ground.” Even though he was invited by Gold Star families, Democratic presidential nominee accused Trump of staging a “political stunt” after his campaign staff got into an altercation with a...
  • Trump Ally Tulsi Gabbard Blasts Kamala Harris After CNN’s Dana Bash Tries to Get Her with ‘Gotcha’ Question on President Trump’s Visit to Arlington National Cemetery With Gold Star Families (VIDEO)

    09/01/2024 10:15:37 PM PDT · by hardspunned · 57 replies
    Gateway pundit ^ | 9/1/24 | David Greyson
    Former Congresswoman and Trump ally Tulsi Gabbard went on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Dana Bash on Sunday to discuss President Trump’s visit to Arlington National Cemetery. President Trump visited Arlington Cemetery with Gold Star Families on the anniversary of the Kabul bombing that killed 13 US servicemembers. Joe Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal in August 2021 led to the death of 13 US servicemembers and many more wounded. Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, and the fake news media shamelessly attacked President Trump for honoring the Gold Star families.
  • NBC Admits Lying About Kamala Meeting Families of Murdered Soldiers

    09/01/2024 2:49:07 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 42 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 09/01/2024 | Joel B Pollack
    NBC News’ Meet the Press admitted Sunday that anchor Kristen Welker had been incorrect to say that Vice President Kamala Harris had met the families of Americans killed in Afghanistan — though it also botched the correction. In an interview with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Welker challenged the Republican over former President Donald Trump’s visit last week to Arlington National Cemetery to pay his respects to the 13 fallen American soldiers on the third anniversary of the terror attack on Abbey Gate at the international airport in Kabul. The Harris/Walz campaign accused Trump of politicizing the memorial, amid controversy over...
  • Here’s video of several different military families defending Donald Trump and criticizing Kamala Harris over the recent incident at Arlington National Cemetery

    09/01/2024 12:08:56 PM PDT · by grundle · 7 replies
    Wordpress ^ | September 1, 2024 | Dan from Squirrel Hill
    Here’s video of several different military families defending Donald Trump and criticizing Kamala Harris over the recent incident at Arlington National Cemeteryhttps://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1830045970911867154Darin Hoover, Father of Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover… https://t.co/CHNRzcTa0J pic.twitter.com/ANQaSfjcUs— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 1, 2024https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1830044938148442601Coral Doolittle, Mother of Corporal Humberto A. Sanchez… https://t.co/CHNRzcTa0J pic.twitter.com/dz3UfvhVLB— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 1, 2024https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1830044664688165285Jaclyn Schmitz, Mother of Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz… https://t.co/CHNRzcTa0J pic.twitter.com/MeACvB310r— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 1, 2024https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1830044423079530939Steve Nikoui, Father of Lance Corporal Kareem M. Nikoui… https://t.co/CHNRzcTa0J pic.twitter.com/e7uRJo8ViA— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 1, 2024https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1830044131021762757Mark Schmitz, Father of Lance Corporal Jared M. Schmitz… https://t.co/CHNRzcTa0J pic.twitter.com/pRLF9tS7Jn— Donald J. Trump...
  • White House says Biden and Harris weren’t invited to Arlington Cemetery by families of service members killed during Afghanistan withdrawal

    09/01/2024 12:50:07 PM PDT · by McGruff · 61 replies
    NBC News ^ | Sep 1, 2024 | Gabe Gutierrez, Sarah Dean and Alexandra Marquez
    President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were not invited to Arlington National Cemetery by Gold Star families last week to commemorate the third anniversary of the attack at Abbey Gate, a White House official and a Harris aide told NBC News, refuting separate claims made Sunday by GOP Sen. Tom Cotton and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard. The two were speaking about former President Donald Trump's visit to Arlington National Cemetery last week, where he has drawn criticism for posing for photos with Gold Star families in a section of the cemetery where photos are traditionally prohibited. Last week,...
  • Criticizing Trump, Harris Says Arlington Is ‘Not a Place for Politics’

    08/31/2024 12:51:42 PM PDT · by McGruff · 135 replies
    NY Times ^ | Aug 31, 2024 | Neil Vigdor and Nicholas Nehamas
    Vice President Kamala Harris excoriated former President Donald J. Trump on Saturday for his visit on Monday to Arlington National Cemetery, where his campaign’s filming of him in a heavily restricted area caused a confrontation between one of his political aides and a cemetery official. In her first public comments on the situation, Ms. Harris said that Mr. Trump had desecrated a solemn place that should be free of politics when he appeared there for a wreath-laying ceremony for 13 service members who were killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan during the withdrawal of U.S. troops three years ago....
  • Raskin asks Army for incident report, briefing on Trump’s Arlington cemetery incident

    08/31/2024 11:59:46 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 54 replies
    The Hill ^ | 08/31/2024
    Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) asked the U.S. Army in a letter Friday for a full report and a briefing on former President Trump’s visit to Arlington cemetery, after reports of a confrontation between his staff and cemetery officials surfaced. Raskin, the ranking member on the House Oversight Commitee, sent the letter, obtained by The Hill, to Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth. The lawmaker asked her to provide a report on the incident, including whether the former president’s staff “violated federal law or Cemetery rules and whether the Trump campaign informed the families of servicemembers buried at the Cemetery that...