A Confederate memorial is to be removed from Arlington National Cemetery in northern Virginia in the coming days, part of the push to remove symbols that commemorate the Confederacy from military-related facilities, a cemetery official said Saturday.
The decision ignores a recent demand from more than 40 Republican congressmen that the Pentagon suspend efforts to dismantle and remove the monument from Arlington cemetery.
They are replacing the statue with a tribute to Matthew Perry
Friends ran for ten years. The CSA existed for four years. Technically Chandler is a bigger part of US history.
I like telling those “my heritage” people that the Obama administration lasted three more years than the Confederacy, making Obama a far greater part of their heritage.