Despite GOP pushback, Confederate monument at Arlington National Cemetery to be removed

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/12/17/confederate-
monument-arlington-cemetery-removal/71951822007/

A Confederate Monument in Arlington National Cemetery is expected to be
removed this week as part of a national effort to remove confederate
symbols from military-related spaces.

In a news release, Arlington Cemetery said safety fencing has been
installed around the memorial and officials expect removal to be done by
Friday. The landscape, graves and headstones surrounding the memorial will
be protected while the monument is taken down.

"During the deconstruction, the area around the Memorial will be protected
to ensure no impact to the surrounding landscape and grave markers and to
ensure the safety of visitors in and around the vicinity of the
deconstruction," the cemetery news release said.

Memorial removals:'100 years of difficult work': Richmond removes final
public Confederate monument

Republican push back
Removal of the monument comes despite push back from Republican lawmakers.
On Monday, 44 lawmakers, led by Georgia Republican Rep. Andrew Clyde wrote
a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin demanding the Reconciliation
Monument be kept, Fox News reported.

Clyde said the monument, “does not honor nor commemorate the Confederacy;
the memorial commemorates reconciliation and national unity.”

In a September 2022 report to Congress, an independent commission
recommended the removal of the monument, which was unveiled in 1914 and
designed by a Confederate veteran. The memorial "offers a nostalgic,
mythologized vision of the Confederacy, including highly sanitized
depictions of slavery," according to Arlington Cemetery.


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