An article appeared on January 20th, 2023, touching upon the assault on the “Reconciliation” monument in Arlington National Cemetery. The monument has been labeled as “Confederate” and therefore resides in the cross-hairs of the present Woke Nation. Author Allen Brownfeld entitled the piece: Removing the Confederate Memorial From Arlington: What Would Lincoln or Grant Think? Of course, the contretemps about the effort by the vandals of WOKE to remove any and all Confederate along with other “American” cultural monuments is nothing new. Perhaps the newest thing about this one – though there had been earlier intimations on the matter – is the possibility of the removal of the bodies of those relatively few Confederate soldiers also buried in Arlington! After all, these low- lifes have already disinterred Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife and General A.P. Hill whose body was, according to reports, desecrated by the thugs involved. And, of course, every time this crime against decency and humanity takes place, all manner of honorable people devoted to truth, history, the culture and civilization in general, speak out against what is happening. Mr. Brownfeld’s effort is no different than the efforts of countless intelligent, informed and ethical people heretofore mentioned, attempting to overcome what they properly understand as mindless destruction through the process of rational thought. Furthermore, his argument has been made many times before; that is, that the intelligent and decent people who fought on the other side of the so-called “Civil War” would reject the current policy and call for an end to the passions that supposedly motivate the vandals. Indeed, nowhere is such a conclusion more clearly sustained than in the attempt to remove a monument to the very concept of “Reconciliation” between the two sides.
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