The Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery is being torn down.
After a short legal battle, the Biden administration will continue its plan to remove the statue, which is over a century old, from the cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia.
Will this monument be treated with care once it’s removed? I find that doubtful.
The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, was supposed to go to a museum. It went to a “museum” all right—a museum that melted down the statue and beheaded it in the dead of night.
The demolition should have been halted permanently. Arlington’s Confederate Memorial, where then-President Barack Obama sent a wreath just over a decade ago, should have been left where it was and remained a lasting tribute to the restoration of the Union.
The Biden administration’s move to tear down the…
