12/19/2023

U.S. Judge Halts Removal of Confederate Memorial at Arlington Cemetery

U.S. District Judge Rossie Alston issued the order

On Monday, a federal judge ordered a halt to the removal of a Confederate monument at Arlington National Cemetery shortly after U.S. Army crews began work to dismantle the tall bronze statue as required by Congress under a Jan. 1 deadline.

A spokesperson for the cemetery, managed by the U.S. Defense Department, said the Army was complying with the restraining order and had ceased removal work begun in the morning atop the statue, known as the Confederate Memorial.

The cemetery's own online critique describes the monument's imagery and inscriptions as sanitizing pre-Civil War slavery, romanticizing secession of the Southern pro-slave states and perpetuating the noble "Lost Cause" myth of the Confederacy.

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