Jim Webb, former Virginia senator and Navy Secretary, has weighed in on the decision to remove the Confederate monument in Arlington National Cemetery. My response to Webb’s op-ed is not focused on the question of whether the monument should be removed, but on his understanding of the monument’s history and Civil War memory.
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