I’ve been coming here for years with teachers and other groups, long before it became controversial following the murder of George Floyd, but today will likely be my last visit.
Congress passed a law, over Trump's veto, directing the Department of Defense, to identify and remove, anything that honors the Confederacy, which was identified in the law as made up of traitors.
So the Confederate monument at Arlington is coming down due less to the military's wish than due to the rule of law! I believe 1,111 specific things are being renamed, by the end of 2023, as a result of this law! The military is top-down, and its officers follow orders. Congress passed a law ordering that confederate honorifics be purged. Representative gov't. at work. -- Mark Higbee, Ypsilanti, Michigan
Congress passed a law, over Trump's veto, directing the Department of Defense, to identify and remove, anything that honors the Confederacy, which was identified in the law as made up of traitors.
So the Confederate monument at Arlington is coming down due less to the military's wish than due to the rule of law! I believe 1,111 specific things are being renamed, by the end of 2023, as a result of this law! The military is top-down, and its officers follow orders. Congress passed a law ordering that confederate honorifics be purged. Representative gov't. at work. -- Mark Higbee, Ypsilanti, Michigan
That is basically how it went down.
Can't wait for the big falsehood to give way to smaller truths.