Powerful public testimony supporting the Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery

Powerful public testimony supporting the Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery

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Arlington National Cemetery, 109 year old Confederate Memorial to the Reconciliation and Reunification of our great nation after our bloodiest war. It was the brainchild of Union soldier and president, William McKinley, who said “every soldier’s grave made during our unfortunate civil war is a tribute to American valor.” The sculptor, internationally renowned Jewish artist Moses Jacob Ezekiel, was a VMI Confederate soldier. Art critic Michael Robert Patterson states that “no sculptor, as far as known, has ever, in any one memorial told as much history as has Ezekiel in his monument at Arlington; and every human figure in it, as well as every symbol, is in and of itself a work of art.” In a barbaric crime against art and history, the naming commission and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin want the monument demolished. Aerial view of the Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery with over 500 graves of Confederate military personnel and some family in concentric circles around the monument. Sculptor Moses Ezekiel is buried with two other Confederate soldiers and one Confederate sailor around the base. The monument is literally their headstone but the naming commission and Secretary Austin want the monument destroyed. Respect for Southern dead is not something they care about despite 44% of today’s United States military being recruited in the South. View from the ground at Arlington National Cemetery of the beautiful Confederate Memorial to the reconciliation of North and South. The Woke naming commission and Secretary Austin want it demolished in the cheapest way possible. Photo courtesy Derrick Johnson.

[Publisher’s Note, by Gene Kizer, Jr. – I was proud to be among the thirty-five or so speakers who joined a virtual meeting on Wednesday, March 15, 2023 to speak on behalf of the Confederate Memorial. We were given two-and-a-half minutes each by the Arlington National Cemetery Remember and Explore Subcommittee, which answers to the Advisory Committee on Arlington National Cemetery.

Speakers included many high-ranking retired military veterans and people with extensive historical knowledge, as well as average patriotic Americans disgusted with the Woke tearing at the very fabric of our county.

It was pointed out several times that the demolition of the magnificent 109 year old Confederate monument, that was supported by four presidents and veterans, North and South, would be an act so barbaric, uncivilized and immoral, it would put the American federal government on the same level with the Taliban. We can not allow that.

The Confederate Memorial is surrounded by over 500 graves in concentric circles out from the monument. It was designed in Rome, Italy, by world-class Jewish artist and VMI Confederate veteran, Sir Moses Ezekiel, who is buried inches from its base along with two other Confederate soldiers and a Confederate sailor.

A question was brought up by a member of the Remember and Explore Subcommittee after public comment had ended asking if “reconciliation” is specifically mentioned anywhere.

IT IS, and in great detail by Arlington National Cemetery itself in its 2014 application for its Historic District to be on the National Register of Historic Places. ANC makes it clear and in numerous places that the Confederate Memorial and the 500 Confederate graves around it symbolize our country coming back together as one nation with love, respect and patriotism.

See my white paper entitled “The Reconciliation of North and South After the War Between the States as Symbolized by the Confederate Memorial ‘New South’ in Arlington National Cemetery,” Section 12 of Defend Arlington’s 385 page white paper book (link below) entitled:

 

Arguments Against Naming Commission Recommendation, RE: Arlington National Cemetery Confederate Memorial

A collection of white papers, articles, testimony, and the Presidential Monument dedication speech

 

Testimony Wednesday was at times emotional. Sincerity and love of country was palpable. Several members of the Remember and Explore Subcommittee noted later their admiration for the dignified, heartfelt emotion involved in the public testimony.

It made me proud to be an American and Southerner fighting against the politicized fraud that the left has turned our history into since the 1960s.

People are fed up with, not just the race obsession in academia and much of the news media, but the entire Woke agenda, which is now entrenched in our military.

Wokeness in the military is the primary reason for the recruiting crisis that is far worse this year than last. See “Woke Military Ads Prove Infiltration of Woke Politics” by Graham Perdue, March 14, 2023.ⁱ There is a link in the endnote.

This is one of a plethora of articles in publications such as Military Times and Army Times, giving a dire warning about wokeness in the military, men in women’s showers, etc., ad nauseam. See my blog article “Military Times reports ‘trust and confidence’ in our military dropped from 70% in 2018 to 48% in 2022,” January 31, 2023.ⁱⁱ

It is not smart to destroy the Confederate Memorial, which symbolizes the reconciliation of North and South after the War Between the States, when 44% of the United States Military is recruited in the South.

Defend Arlington is gaining traction nationwide.

We have a LONG way to go but we now have the support of Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin. Other governors and state legislatures are sure to join the fight.

In the South Carolina legislature, a Resolution with thirty sponsors was filed calling for South Carolina Representatives in Congress to oppose the Arlington Desecration. It is expected to pass soon. Please do this in ALL Southern and receptive states!

The SCV filed a law suit last Monday in the Eastern District of Virginia.

Defend Arlington needs money for our outstanding legal team. If you are fed up with the Woke destroying our history and monuments, STAND UP AND FIGHT! Please donate all you can as often as you can. There are links below.

Make Arlington the turning point in the Marxist war against America.

Woke hate and ignorance DIE at Arlington National Cemetery.]

Links to Important Resources

Defend Arlington’s recording of the 35 or so speakers on behalf of the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery that took place Wednesday, March 15, 2023 in a virtual meeting of the Remember and Explore Subcommittee of Arlington National Cemetery.

View testimony which starts at 1:38:59.

Here is a link to Defend Arlington’s donation page that states:

CHIP IN FOR THE ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY MEMORIAL LITIGATION DEFENSE FUND

Please Donate Money — THANK YOU!

Defend Arlington update with link to February 28, 2023 Tucker Carlson interview with Christopher Bedford on the Confederate Reconciliation Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery.

Defend Arlington update, Tucker Carlson segment on YouTube

Hot off the press! Here is a link to the new 385 page PDF from Defend Arlington that flips pages as you read. It contains all the great scholarly white papers gathered up by Defend Arlington to make sure that Woke ignorance DIES at Arlington National Cemetery.

Defend Arlington’s 385 Page Book of White Papers

Here is a link to an informative nine minute video, “The Arlington Confederate Monument,” produced by the Abbeville Institute.

The Arlington Confederate Monument

Here is a link to the outstanding scholarly PDF white papers written for Defend Arlington. You can download them all with one click. Please share them far and wide, especially the letter from Defend Arlington’s attorney, Karen C. Bennett, to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

PDF White Papers from Defend Arlington

Here is link to an excellent video refuting point by point a historically false Prager University video by Ty Seidule, who is on the naming commission. This one is produced by Bode Lang and entitled “The Civil War Was Not for Slavery.”

Click Here for Bode Lang’s excellent video

Here is a link to an excellent video of a Georgia lady calling out Elizabeth Warren and her Massachusetts hypocrisy.

Click Here for Georgia Lady Teaching Elizabeth Warren a Lesson

Here are important Southern Legal Resource Center links. SLRC mailing address is: Southern Legal Resource Center, 90 Church St., Black Mountain, NC 28711-3365.

Click Here to donate to the Southern Legal Resource Center

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Take action TODAY!

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ⁱ Graham Perdue, “Woke Military Ads Prove Infiltration of Woke Politics,” March 14, 2023, https://freedompress.com/woke-military-ads-prove-infiltration-of-woke-politics/, accessed 3-17-23.

ⁱⁱ Gene Kizer, Jr., “Military Times reports ‘trust and confidence’ in our military dropped from 70% in 2018 to 48% in 2022,” January 31, 2023, https://www.charlestonathenaeumpress.com/military-times-reports-trust-and-confidence-in-our-military-dropped-from-70-in-2018-to-48-in-2022-politicization-cited-as-number-one-problem/.