Editorial | Another Confederate monument bites the dust WashTimesOpEd
Memorial Day ceremonies were held in Section 16. President Theodore Roosevelt sent a floral arrangement to commemorate it, a tradition that almost every U.S. president has repeated — even Barack Obama.
With President William Howard Taft’s consent, in 1906, the United Daughters of the Confederacy began raising funds for the statue. It was designed by Moses Jacob Ezekiel, aveteran and the first Jewish graduate of the Virginia Military Institute. Other sculptures of his can be found around the nation, including in front of the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. He was buried beneath his statue in Arlington, with President Warren G.
Now, the radicals in our society are going to tear down his creation because, as the secretary of defense has explained,can “inspire all those who call them home, fully reflect the history and the values of the United States and commemorate the best of the republic that we are all sworn to protect.” The military says all bronze elements on the memorial will be relocated, and its base and foundation will remain as to avoid disturbing the surrounding graves. In today’s race-based hysteria, it is a wonder that Section 16 has survived at all.
With the monument’s destruction, the reconciliation message that Lincoln, Grant, McKinley, Taft and Roosevelt advocated will be lost.Copyright © 2023 The Washington Times, LLC.
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