US Army moves to remove Confederate Memorial from Arlington National Cemetery; 192 House Republicans vote to restore it (not enough to do so)

[essentialsaltes]

Republicans embrace a Confederate symbol, after years of unease​

The House vote to restore the Confederate Memorial to Arlington National Cemetery failed, but not before it got a lot more GOP support — about 89 percent — than similar recent votes.

The House voted Thursday on a Republican amendment to restore Arlington National Cemetery’s Confederate Memorial. The century-old monument, which was removed in December, features [among other figures] an enslaved Black “mammy” holding the infant child of a White officer, as an enslaved Black man follows the officer off to war. The monument references the “Lost Cause,” a mythology about the Civil War era favored by apologists for the Confederacy.

The amendment, sponsored by Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.), did not pass, but it got very strong support in the House GOP conference. While 24 Republicans voted against restoring the monument, 192 voted in favor — nearly 89 percent of voting Republicans.

That’s significantly more GOP support for a Confederate symbol than we’ve seen over the last decade.

In 2016, 84 House Republicans voted in favor of the proposal [to remove the Confederate flag from cemeteries]

[Proposal to remove Confederate statues and Justice Taney from the Capitol] got the support of 72 House Republicans in 2020 and 67 in 2021.

McCarthy and Scalise also voted in favor of removing the Confederate statues from the Capitol after Floyd’s murder, with McCarthy spinning the move thusly: “All of the statues being removed by this bill are statues of Democrats.” (The South was dominated by Democrats during Civil War times; it’s now overwhelmingly Republican.)

But on Thursday, among those voting in favor of restoring the Confederate Memorial at Arlington were every single top House GOP leader, including Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Scalise, who is now House majority leader.

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background from last December

Confederate Memorial at Arlington will be removed despite GOP opposition​

Though dozens of congressional Republicans protested the move, the Army says it will begin work in coming days [to comply with law].

The U.S. Army intends to remove a Confederate memorial from Arlington National Cemetery next week as part of its ongoing work to rid Defense Department property of divisive rebel imagery, defying dozens of congressional Republicans who have vociferously protested the move.

A woman representing the American South, standing atop a 32-foot pedestal, lords above most other monuments within America’s most revered resting place. It portrays, according to the cemetery’s website, a “mythologized vision of the Confederacy, including highly sanitized depictions of slavery.”

The Army, which operates Arlington Cemetery, informed lawmakers Friday that it would proceed with the monument’s removal, officials told The Washington Post, because it was required by the end of the year to comply with a law to identify and remove assets that commemorate the Confederacy.

The [Congressional] commission found about 1,100 assets that commemorate the Confederacy, including base names and street signs, and advised the Pentagon on what should be removed or changed. The memorial at Arlington was the last significant item on that list, Army officials said

 

[The IbanezerScrooge]

McCarthy and Scalise also voted in favor of removing the Confederate statues from the Capitol after Floyd’s murder, with McCarthy spinning the move thusly: “All of the statues being removed by this bill are statues of Democrats.” (The South was dominated by Democrats during Civil War times; it’s now overwhelmingly Republican.)

This is such a dumb reason and completely disingenuous assuming of course that Rep. McCarthy actually understand the history of political parties in this country. Namely, that the "Democrats" and "Republicans" of the Civil War era were NOT the Democrats and Republicans of today. As much as they like to draw the comparison the Republicans of today are not the Republicans of Lincoln.

 

[essentialsaltes]

This is such a dumb reason and completely disingenuous

I'll allow them some weak partisan showboating as long as it helps them to do the right thing. But it looks like those days are over, now that so much of the GOP base is apparently pro-Confederate monument.

 

[AlexB23]

Republicans embrace a Confederate symbol, after years of unease​

The House vote to restore the Confederate Memorial to Arlington National Cemetery failed, but not before it got a lot more GOP support — about 89 percent — than similar recent votes.

The House voted Thursday on a Republican amendment to restore Arlington National Cemetery’s Confederate Memorial. The century-old monument, which was removed in December, features [among other figures] an enslaved Black “mammy” holding the infant child of a White officer, as an enslaved Black man follows the officer off to war. The monument references the “Lost Cause,” a mythology about the Civil War era favored by apologists for the Confederacy.

The amendment, sponsored by Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.), did not pass, but it got very strong support in the House GOP conference. While 24 Republicans voted against restoring the monument, 192 voted in favor — nearly 89 percent of voting Republicans.

That’s significantly more GOP support for a Confederate symbol than we’ve seen over the last decade.

In 2016, 84 House Republicans voted in favor of the proposal [to remove the Confederate flag from cemeteries]

[Proposal to remove Confederate statues and Justice Taney from the Capitol] got the support of 72 House Republicans in 2020 and 67 in 2021.

McCarthy and Scalise also voted in favor of removing the Confederate statues from the Capitol after Floyd’s murder, with McCarthy spinning the move thusly: “All of the statues being removed by this bill are statues of Democrats.” (The South was dominated by Democrats during Civil War times; it’s now overwhelmingly Republican.)

But on Thursday, among those voting in favor of restoring the Confederate Memorial at Arlington were every single top House GOP leader, including Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Scalise, who is now House majority leader.

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background from last December

Confederate Memorial at Arlington will be removed despite GOP opposition​

Though dozens of congressional Republicans protested the move, the Army says it will begin work in coming days [to comply with law].

The U.S. Army intends to remove a Confederate memorial from Arlington National Cemetery next week as part of its ongoing work to rid Defense Department property of divisive rebel imagery, defying dozens of congressional Republicans who have vociferously protested the move.

A woman representing the American South, standing atop a 32-foot pedestal, lords above most other monuments within America’s most revered resting place. It portrays, according to the cemetery’s website, a “mythologized vision of the Confederacy, including highly sanitized depictions of slavery.”

The Army, which operates Arlington Cemetery, informed lawmakers Friday that it would proceed with the monument’s removal, officials told The Washington Post, because it was required by the end of the year to comply with a law to identify and remove assets that commemorate the Confederacy.

The [Congressional] commission found about 1,100 assets that commemorate the Confederacy, including base names and street signs, and advised the Pentagon on what should be removed or changed. The memorial at Arlington was the last significant item on that list, Army officials said

Well, hopefully this memorial could be moved to a Civil War history museum, because history is important for us not to repeat the same mistakes.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Well, hopefully this memorial could be moved to a Civil War history museum, because history is important for us not to repeat the same mistakes.

I don't know if this has been arranged, but Governor Youngkin of VA intends to relocate it to New Market Battlefield State Historical Park

 

[Zaha Torte]

Republicans embrace a Confederate symbol, after years of unease​

The House vote to restore the Confederate Memorial to Arlington National Cemetery failed, but not before it got a lot more GOP support — about 89 percent — than similar recent votes.

The House voted Thursday on a Republican amendment to restore Arlington National Cemetery’s Confederate Memorial. The century-old monument, which was removed in December, features [among other figures] an enslaved Black “mammy” holding the infant child of a White officer, as an enslaved Black man follows the officer off to war. The monument references the “Lost Cause,” a mythology about the Civil War era favored by apologists for the Confederacy.

The amendment, sponsored by Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.), did not pass, but it got very strong support in the House GOP conference. While 24 Republicans voted against restoring the monument, 192 voted in favor — nearly 89 percent of voting Republicans.

That’s significantly more GOP support for a Confederate symbol than we’ve seen over the last decade.

In 2016, 84 House Republicans voted in favor of the proposal [to remove the Confederate flag from cemeteries]

[Proposal to remove Confederate statues and Justice Taney from the Capitol] got the support of 72 House Republicans in 2020 and 67 in 2021.

McCarthy and Scalise also voted in favor of removing the Confederate statues from the Capitol after Floyd’s murder, with McCarthy spinning the move thusly: “All of the statues being removed by this bill are statues of Democrats.” (The South was dominated by Democrats during Civil War times; it’s now overwhelmingly Republican.)

But on Thursday, among those voting in favor of restoring the Confederate Memorial at Arlington were every single top House GOP leader, including Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Scalise, who is now House majority leader.

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background from last December

Confederate Memorial at Arlington will be removed despite GOP opposition​

Though dozens of congressional Republicans protested the move, the Army says it will begin work in coming days [to comply with law].

The U.S. Army intends to remove a Confederate memorial from Arlington National Cemetery next week as part of its ongoing work to rid Defense Department property of divisive rebel imagery, defying dozens of congressional Republicans who have vociferously protested the move.

A woman representing the American South, standing atop a 32-foot pedestal, lords above most other monuments within America’s most revered resting place. It portrays, according to the cemetery’s website, a “mythologized vision of the Confederacy, including highly sanitized depictions of slavery.”

The Army, which operates Arlington Cemetery, informed lawmakers Friday that it would proceed with the monument’s removal, officials told The Washington Post, because it was required by the end of the year to comply with a law to identify and remove assets that commemorate the Confederacy.

The [Congressional] commission found about 1,100 assets that commemorate the Confederacy, including base names and street signs, and advised the Pentagon on what should be removed or changed. The memorial at Arlington was the last significant item on that list, Army officials said

I want them to stay up - just like how I want statues of people wearing masks.

They are a good reminder of how dumb people can be.

 

[AlexB23]

I don't know if this has been arranged, but Governor Youngkin of VA intends to relocate it to New Market Battlefield State Historical Park

Nice. History, no matter how bad, should not be erased.

 

[Hans Blaster]

I don't know if this has been arranged, but Governor Youngkin of VA intends to relocate it to New Market Battlefield State Historical Park

Does the park have a museum of racist 20th century art?

 

[wing2000]

Soldiers who served the Confederacy are burriend in a designated section where this memorial was installed.....

By 1901, all of the 397 known, and 12 unknown, Confederate soldiers buried in the national cemeteries at Alexandria, Virginia, and at the Soldiers' Home in Washington were reinterred in the Confederate section at Arlington National Cemetery (another 73 southern civilians are also interred in the Confederate section). On March 4, 1906, then Secretary of War William H. Taft, approved a request from the United Daughters of the Confederacy to erect a memorial to their war dead in Arlington.

Cornerstone Laying of the Arlington National Cemetery Confederate Monument

By 1901, all of the 397 known, and 12 unknown, Confederate soldiers buried in the national cemeteries at Alexandria, Virginia, and at the Soldiers' Home in...

www.battlefields.org

There is no specific memorial to the 16,000+ Union soldiers buried there.

 

[AlexB23]

Soldiers who served the Confederacy are burriend in a designated section where this memorial was installed.....

By 1901, all of the 397 known, and 12 unknown, Confederate soldiers buried in the national cemeteries at Alexandria, Virginia, and at the Soldiers' Home in Washington were reinterred in the Confederate section at Arlington National Cemetery (another 73 southern civilians are also interred in the Confederate section). On March 4, 1906, then Secretary of War William H. Taft, approved a request from the United Daughters of the Confederacy to erect a memorial to their war dead in Arlington.

Cornerstone Laying of the Arlington National Cemetery Confederate Monument

By 1901, all of the 397 known, and 12 unknown, Confederate soldiers buried in the national cemeteries at Alexandria, Virginia, and at the Soldiers' Home in...

www.battlefields.org

There is no specific memorial to the 16,000+ Union soldiers buried there.

Ooh, seems like the cemetery needs a Union memorial.

 

[wing2000]

The statue, unveiled in 1914, features a bronze woman, crowned with olive leaves, standing on a 32-foot pedestal, and was designed to represent the American South. According to Arlington, the woman holds a laurel wreath, a plow stock and a pruning hook, with a Biblical inscription at her feet that says: “They have beat their swords into plough-shares and their spears into pruning hooks.”

The pedestal features 14 shields, engraved with the coats of arms of the 13 Confederate states and Maryland, which didn’t secede or join the Confederacy. Some of the figures also on the statue include a slave woman depicted as “Mammy” holding what is said to be the child of a white officer, and an enslaved man following his owner to war.

And the Latin inscription translates to: “The victorious cause was pleasing to the gods, but the lost cause to Cato,” and was meant to equate the South’s secession to a noble “lost cause.”

Panel advises removal of Confederate statue at Arlington

An independent commission is recommending that the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery be dismantled and taken down, as part of its final report to Congress on the renaming of military bases and assets that commemorate the Confederacy.

apnews.com

 

[Pommer]

Ooh, seems like the cemetery needs a Union memorial.

It’s all Union, (though there could be a Civil War dead demarcation?)

 

[wing2000]

It’s all Union, (though there could be a Civil War dead demarcation?)

There is a a Confederate section...where this statute resides.

 

[Pommer]

There is a a Confederate section...where this statute resides.

Ooohhh, that’s very different…never mind, [/Latella]