Confederate Memorial in Arlington [View all]
By T. Rees Shapiro
August 17 at 9:09 PM
On the western edge of Arlington National Cemetery stands a 32-foot-tall bronze hymn to soldiers of a bygone past ...
... It is the Confederate Memorial. A soaring testament to Southern pride, placed in Arlington nearly 50 years after the Civil War ended, the monument features a frieze depicting Rebels shouldering rifles, a black slave following his master and an enslaved woman — described on the cemetery’s website as a “mammy” — cradling a Confederate officer’s infant ...
The Arlington cemetery .. is on property administered by the Department of the Army. The Confederate Memorial, erected in the early 20th century, is encircled by 482 graves of Rebel officers, enlisted men and others affiliated with their cause. Plenty of critics support its removal, including the NAACP, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the National Association of Black Veterans ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/confederate-memorial-in-arlington-honoring-rebels-on-nations-sacred-ground/2017/08/17/d2be2576-80be-11e7-ab27-1a21a8e006ab_story.html?utm_term=.0a239b3e0210
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