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2023-12-18 Government Corruption

The desecration of Arliington National Cemetary - Is Gettysburg next ?

[Hot Air] Arlington National Cemetary is hallowed ground.

Its history is tied to both the Revolutionary War and the Civil War—the Arlington Estate was originally created as a tribute to George Washington by his adopted grandson, and by an odd quirk of fate, Robert E. Lee wound up temporarily possessing the property at the outbreak of the Civil War. The federal government seized it for military purposes, and it became the site of our most prestigious national cemetery.

The Civil War was, by far, the most deadly war in our history, with over half a million American deaths. At the turn of the 20th century, Congress agreed to intern Confederate soldiers at Arlington and allowed the erection of a monument that became known as the "Reconciliation" monument

...that’s the one created by sculptor Moses Ezekiel, a Virginian who was the first Jewish cadet at the Virginia Military Institute, fought on the Confederate side, and asked only to be buried at the foot of what the fashionable artist considered his crowning achievement...

a celebration of the country coming back together.

After the George Floyd riots, the federal government decided to take down monuments with a connection to the Confederacy and to eliminate anything that could be interpreted as celebrating, justifying, or acknowledging the Confederacy as anything other than evil. As part of this effort the "Reconciliation Monument" was put on the chopping bloc.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-12-18 06:32|| || Front Page|| [11142 views ] Top

#1 Who authorized this desecration?

Posted by Jerens Black9355 2023-12-18 08:03|| 2023-12-18 08:03|| Front Page Top

#2 The George Floyd pandering continues on in fire and forget fashion. Now we will nuke reconciliation and move back into Reconstruction. As to who is doing this, it is petty woke tyrants that don’t understand how many swing state voters that they continue to alienate.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-12-18 09:34|| 2023-12-18 09:34|| Front Page Top

#3 They're tearing down a monument titled "Reconciliation". That's a tell folks.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-12-18 10:08|| 2023-12-18 10:08|| Front Page Top

#4 #1, you will never find out.

It is a nameless, faceless bureaucrat somwhere out there who is very good at covering her tracks.

Posted by Tom 2023-12-18 11:43|| 2023-12-18 11:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Words fail in an effort to condemn this craven insult to our past dignity. This is despicable most of all because it places the communist/race rot dead center in Arlington, centerpiece of reverence for our Honored Dead. Now tainted with cheap theatrics to appease the perpetually offended minority that demokrats need to constantly fellate in hopes of remaining on the entitlement-voter plantation!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-12-18 12:42|| 2023-12-18 12:42|| Front Page Top

#6 https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/judge-issues-order-keeping-confederate-memorial-at-arlington-cemetery-for-now/3496987/

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-12-18 13:37|| 2023-12-18 13:37|| Front Page Top

#7 General Joshua Chamberlain (Colonel at Gettysburg and the stand at Little Roundtop, wounded severely several times in the course of the war) was given the charge of receiving the formal surrender - his account:

"At such a time and under such conditions I thought it eminently fitting to show some token of our feeling, and I therefore instructed my subordinate officers to come to the position of 'salute' in the manual of arms as each body of the Confederates passed before us.

"It was not a 'present arms,' however, not a 'present,' which then as now was the highest possible honor to be paid even to a president. It was the 'carry arms,' as it was then known, with musket held by the right hand and perpendicular to the shoulder. I may best describe it as a marching salute in review.

"When General Gordon came opposite me I had the bugle blown and the entire line came to 'attention,' preparatory to executing this movement of the manual successively and by regiments as Gordon's columns should pass before our front, each in turn.

"The General was riding in advance of his troops, his chin drooped to his breast, downhearted and dejected in appearance almost beyond description. At the sound of that machine like snap of arms, however, General Gordon started, caught in a moment its significance, and instantly assumed the finest attitude of a soldier. He wheeled his horse facing me, touching him gently with the spur, so that the animal slightly reared, and as he wheeled, horse and rider made one motion, the horse's head swung down with a graceful bow, and General Gordon dropped his swordpoint to his toe in salutation.

"By word of mouth General Gordon sent back orders to the rear that his own troops take the same position of the manual in the march past as did our line. That was done, and a truly imposing sight was the mutual salutation and farewell.

"At a distance of possibly twelve feet from our line, the Confederates halted and turned face towards us. Their lines were formed with the greatest care, with every officer in his appointed position, and thereupon began the formality of surrender.

"Bayonets were affixed to muskets, arms stacked, and cartridge boxes unslung and hung upon the stacks. Then, slowly and with a reluctance that was appealingly pathetic, the torn and tattered battleflags were either leaned against the stacks or laid upon the ground. The emotion of the conquered soldiery was really sad to witness. Some of the men who had carried and followed those ragged standards through the four long years of strife, rushed, regardless of all discipline, from the ranks, bent about their old flags, and pressed them to their lips with burning tears.

"And it can well be imagined, too, that there was no lack of emotion on our side, but the Union men were held steady in their lines, without the least show of demonstration by word or by motion. There was, though, a twitching of the muscles of their faces, and, be it said, their battle-bronzed cheeks were not altogether dry. Our men felt the import of the occasion, and realized fully how they would have been affected if defeat and surrender had been their lot after such a fearful struggle.

Those who were killing each other just the days before had greater grace then hate mongers have today.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-12-18 13:56|| 2023-12-18 13:56|| Front Page Top

#8 P2k: Thank you.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2023-12-18 15:23|| 2023-12-18 15:23|| Front Page Top

#9 Men of valor and men of honor to never be forgotten. God knows them, every one.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-12-18 15:52|| 2023-12-18 15:52|| Front Page Top

#10 Looks like a judge stopped the abominable desecration.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-12-18 17:17|| 2023-12-18 17:17|| Front Page Top

#11 the judge that stopped the desecration is Rosie Alston

however her 'hold' on the removal expires 20 Dec

Posted by lord garth 2023-12-18 21:50|| 2023-12-18 21:50|| Front Page Top

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