House Republicans urge Pentagon to block removal of a Confederate memorial from Arlington National Cemetery
House Republicans urge Pentagon to block removal of a Confederate memorial from Arlington National Cemetery
More than 40 Republican lawmakers want to stop the Pentagon from removing a controversial Confederate statue from Arlington National Cemetery.
House Republicans want to prevent the Pentagon from removing a Confederate memorial from "America's most sacred shrine," Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia led a group of more than 40 GOP colleagues in calling for the Department of Defense to halt the planned removal of the Reconciliation Monument, also known as the Confederate Memorial, "until Congress completes the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 appropriations process."
In a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, the GOP lawmakers said the monument's removal "does not align with the original intent of Congress."
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The Civil War Unknowns memorial is presumed to hold a number of confederate remains, and is quite close to Arlington House (Robert E Lee being the former owner). That should be enough of a monument to those who tried to overthrow the United States.
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FWIW they didn't try to overthrow the United States. They tried to leave the United States because they hated America for failing to enforce slavery. Confederate states already controlled Congress, but they could not abuse their majority power to subjugate the rest of the country, so they decided they wanted to leave.
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FWIW, At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Harbor. Less than 34 hours later, Union forces surrendered. Traditionally, this event has been used to mark the beginning of the Civil War.
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If they wanted to just leave they probably shouldn't have bombarded Fort Sumter - would've still been a war but the narrative may have played to their dumb Lost Cause bullshit better.
Also they turned traitor because new states joining wouldn't be slave states, and thus they would become a minority and slavery would disappear.
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Arlington used to be the plantation of RE Lee and we built a cemetery over it as a fuck you to the Confederates and this is now a fuck you to their kin.
They should have just grown up but instead they plotted revenge by AGAIN trying to destroy our country.
They are condemned to being losers forever.
Good riddance!
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Eat shit, GOP pricks. Die soon; die forever.
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The Republicans are coping so hard over stupid stuff like this....and then go on about Robert Byrd, etc...
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sure. just work with them on universal healthcare. making higher tax brackets. and raising the debt cap along with requiring taxes be collected to meet whats budgeted. oh and gun control. help me folks. what else?
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
House Republicans want to prevent the Pentagon from removing a Confederate memorial from "America's most sacred shrine," Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia led a group of more than 40 GOP colleagues in calling for the Department of Defense to halt the planned removal of the Reconciliation Monument, also known as the Confederate Memorial, "until Congress completes the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 appropriations process."
"The Department of Defense must comply with this request or risk denigrating the delicate balance of the principles of separation of powers between Congress and the Executive, outlined in the Constitution," they added.
"In 1900, Congress authorized Confederate remains to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery, and in 1906, Secretary of War, William Howard Taft, permitted construction of a monument honoring our country's new shared reconciliation from its troubled divisions," they wrote.
The cemetery's website says that the statue depicts a classical female figure with a crown of olive leaves, rebel soldiers, and enslaved Black people.
In a letter to The Washington Post, signed by family members, they stated: "This statue intended to rewrite history to justify the Confederacy and the subsequent racist Jim Crow laws.
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