Another day, another statue.
Scott Powell, senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, has some history for us about this monument:
...the Reconciliation Monument crafted by the Jewish sculptor Moses Ezekial — is not only one of the most beautiful sculptures of its era. It is also one monument in Arlington that is aligned with the spirit of "e pluribus unum" — the one people out of many — that makes America unique and strong among all the world's nations.
Some people have called the Reconciliation Monument masterpiece the Christmas monument, because of the reconciliation that God achieved when He sent Christ into the world to reconcile sinners with Him and to reconcile people with each other.
The Reconciliation Monument began with President William McKinley, who had served with the Union army and was saddened by the continued division between North and South following the Civil War. During his term as president, however, he saw the way soldiers from both North and South fought side-by-side as brothers in the Spanish American War of 1898.
The monument itself was unveiled in 1914.
Not only did they believe in the importance of reconciliation, but every president thereafter — Democrat and Republican — through the first year of Obama administration agreed and continued the tradition by laying a wreath at the foot of the monument every Memorial Day.
There was a shift with Obama.
Many of us felt it.
The first black president - the messianic figure who was to unite us and put the sins of the past to rest - ripped open the old wounds of the Republic anew. America has not had such a divisive president in all her history.
Under the Biden administration, many of Obama's inner circle continue to carry out the mandate of "healing" America by erasing her past, slandering her fathers, and fracturing her sons.
After the urban riots and massive property destruction that swept across U.S. cities coast to coast after the unfortunate death of George Floyd, the U.S. Congress felt the need "to do something." So, they formed a "Naming Commission" to "remove all names, symbols, displays, monuments and paraphernalia that honor or commemorate Confederate states [or Confederate Generals] of America." Their main task was the renaming of military bases in the south that had been named after Confederate generals, like Fort Bragg and Fort Benning.
Although the Reconciliation Monument was neither conceived to commemorate nor pay tribute to the Confederacy, but rather to honor and celebrate the spirit of reunification and reconciliation of the North and the South, the Democrat-dominated Naming Commission decided to ensnare the Reconciliation Monument in their crusade to remove all vestiges of anything related to the Confederate heritage. In so doing, they chose to break the law and ignore the explicit prohibition of desecrating grave sites.
The Biden administration is violating Amendment 364 of the Fiscal Year 2024 Department of Defense Appropriations bill. This amendment forbids using money "for the removal of any monument in Arlington National Cemetery."
But they don't care.
Who's going to stop them?
You?
Congress?
The sculptor, Moses Ezekial, is buried at the foot of the Reconciliation Monument. It was his last and greatest work.
Like so much else, the Biden White House has desecrated his final tribute and resting place in the name of making America more "equitable."
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin says he "disagrees with the Biden administration's decision to remove" the Reconciliation Monument and is working to move it to the New Market Battlefield State Historical Park in the Shenandoah Valley.
The Biden admin will remove the statue by December 22, presumably working overtime to finish their work before Christmas.
One has to wonder what the soldiers buried in Arlington might think of it all.
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