Posted on 07/03/2020 8:48:17 PM PDT by janetjanet998
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Purpose. America owes its present greatness to its past sacrifices. Because the past is always at risk of being forgotten, monuments will always be needed to honor those who came before. Since the time of our founding, Americans have raised monuments to our greatest citizens. In 1784, the legislature of Virginia commissioned the earliest statue of George Washington, a “monument of affection and gratitude” to a man who “unit[ed] to the endowment[s] of the Hero the virtues of the Patriot” and gave to the world “an Immortal Example of true Glory.” I Res. H. Del. (June 24, 1784). In our public parks and plazas, we have erected statues of great Americans who, through acts of wisdom and daring, built and preserved for us a republic of ordered liberty.
These statues are silent teachers in solid form of stone and metal. They preserve the memory of our American story and stir in us a spirit of responsibility for the chapters yet unwritten. These works of art call forth gratitude for the accomplishments and sacrifices of our exceptional fellow citizens who, despite their flaws, placed their virtues, their talents, and their lives in the service of our Nation. These monuments express our noblest ideals: respect for our ancestors, love of freedom, and striving for a more perfect union. They are works of beauty, created as enduring tributes. In preserving them, we show reverence for our past, we dignify our present, and we inspire those who are to come. To build a monument is to ratify our shared national project.
To destroy a monument is to desecrate our common inheritance. In recent weeks, in the midst of protests across America, many monuments have been vandalized or destroyed. Some local governments have responded by taking their monuments down. Among others, monuments to Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Francis Scott Key, Ulysses S. Grant, leaders of the abolitionist movement, the first all-volunteer African-American regiment of the Union Army in the Civil War, and American soldiers killed in the First and Second World Wars have been vandalized, destroyed, or removed........
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I love this president!!
My pop came here from Italy in the 1920s.
I’m a wop yankee.
I don’t need an explanation from the south if they want to keep their statues. I’m not owed one.
Just like I don’t owe anyone a damn explanation about what Columbus did or didn’t do AFTER his brave voyage.
I was heartbroken and still am to see confederate monuments and flags taken down
HELLO??!?! If they had to do with racism then the number racial attacks wouldn’t have gone down to practically ZERO (white on black at least).
And only an idiot thinks black on white attacks are gonna slow down because of removal of these statues.
Elect new folks and put them back up.
Would be nice if it was located centrally in the country or even towards the west coast (perhaps overlooking the bay in SF) instead of buried behind enemy lines of DC.
That is a fact.
Really send the left off the deep end by putting up a statue of Senator McCarthy. Records from the former Socket Union prove he was right and a true patriot.
Yes, they are.It infuriates me to see these monuments torn down by a bunch of ungrateful ignorant punks.They everyone need an ass whoopin from hell which Im sure most never got.
LOL
Spay & Neuter the Media
@k_ovfefe2
The Trump statue garden is off to a strong start!
https://twitter.com/k_ovfefe2/status/1279270388334317568
Thanks for posting this, I had not heard about it. I do have a few heroes that I would like to see considered- Chris Kyle, Pat Tillman, Rush Limbaugh, and Johnny Cash.
American Dream National History Park and Garden.
That’s what I’ve been seeing have tried ceremonies put them back up with big explanation of why they’re there after they’re torn down by these idiot leftists
In his speech tonight president Trump was naming great Americans and one name perked my ears “Elvis Presley”. I would love to see him get a statue.
Loved hearing about this.
The cement plaza would be a good place to bury the Marxists.
Tesla: Without Tesla we would be in the dark!
In addition to my four original suggestions ( Chris Kyle, Pat Tillman, Rush Limbaugh, and Johnny Cash ) I feel that I need to add one more- John Moses Browning, one of the top heroes of the USA. I wonder about the possibly different outcomes of WWI and WWII without Browning’s inventions.
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