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To: devane617

Why not demand that all of Arlington graves be moved to another site? After all it is on land that once belonged to Robert E. Lee. Doesn’t leaving the dead there show support for the Confederacy?

Yes it is absurd.


42 posted on 12/20/2023 11:04:26 AM PST by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: lastchance
leaving the dead there show support for the Confederacy?

No.

Civil War graves are basically all Union dead. Burying them there, and turning the Mansion into a hospital, was a big ol' middle finger to Gen. Robert E. Lee. The land was, in fact, taken by government fraud. Custis Lee eventually got a United States court order demanding the removal of the graves, the restoration of the property, and its return to the Lee family.

Instead of enforcing that court order, Custis Lee sold the property to Fedzilla for more than the equivalent of $5,000,000 in today's devalued currency. Because back then, Americans were at least trying to reconcile after the ravages of The Late Unpleasantness.

Filth like this "judge" are trying to tear America apart.

46 posted on 12/20/2023 12:07:57 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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