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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is good.

[i]The statue, unveiled in 1914, features a bronze woman, crowned with olive leaves, standing on a 32-foot pedestal, and was designed to represent the American South. According to Arlington, the woman holds a laurel wreath, a plow stock and a pruning hook, with a Biblical inscription at her feet that says: “They have beat their swords into plough-shares and their spears into pruning hooks.”[/i]

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/confederate-memorial-removed-coming-days-arlington-national-cemetery-105718054

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A laurel wreath and a quote about ending war and going back to productive life? Whoever wants this removed is an ignoramus. [/quote]

The quote honors the dead “heroes”. I think we can all agree that the confederates were not heroes.[/quote]

Not to mention that they weren't the ones turning their weapons of war into farm implements, it was the victors.

I'd never paid attention to the statue (acknowledging my privilege) until this thread but since I have degrees in the Classics, I thought it was time to see what imagery was on the monument.  Wow!  Talk about unsubtle unrepentance and white supremacist! And that quote in Latin!  Another WOW!  I could write a tome about its inclusion on the state but, suffice to say, it alone makes it clear the monument is [b]not [/b]about peace and reconciliation.  Of course, what would you expect when the artist was, himself, a Confederate?

This was in that lovely Wikipedia article the 'you're trying to erase history' PP referenced.  For sure, this statue doesn't represent white supremacy and heroic people willing to die to keep others enslaved.  :roll:

[i]The inclusion of the "faithful black servants" was purposeful. Sculptor Moses Ezekiel included them because he wanted to undermine what he called the "lies" told about the South and slavery in Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin and wished to rewrite history "correctly" (his word) to depict black slaves' support for the Confederate cause.[/i][/quote]

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