The Confederate Reconciliation Memorial in Arlington Cemetery is in grave danger of destruction. This is only a part of the broad mission of the Naming Commission established in the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act to erase history from the sight and ears of all Americans, now and future. Former US Senator and Secretary of the Navy Jim Webb recently described it in his appeal to stop its destruction in the Wall Street Journal: “It was designed by internationally respected sculptor Moses Jacob Ezekiel, a Confederate veteran and the first Jewish graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, who asked to be buried at the memorial in Arlington National Cemetery. On one face of the memorial is the finest explanation of wartime service perhaps ever written, by a Confederate veteran who later became a Christian minister: “Not for fame or reward, not for place or for rank; not lured by ambition or goaded by necessity; but in simple obedience to duty as they understood it; these men suffered all, sacrificed all, dared all, and died.” But now in this new world of woke, unless measures are taken very soon, by the end of this year the Confederate Memorial will be gone.” This debate, no fight, to keep American history from being eradicated rages on today.
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