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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]T[b]his is good. [/b]

[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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No, it isn't "GOOD".  Why do you think that?[/quote]

It should go without saying that it's good to remove, from a cemetery for people who served in the US Army, a monument honoring people who fought against the US Army in an effort to preserve the legal right to treat some people as property, not people.[/quote]

No monuments to traitors on US property. 
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You mean property that was first illegally seized by the US Government from the Lee family and then was made unusable for future generations of the Lee family because it had been made into a cemetery, that was bought by the US Government at below market value.[/quote]

Sounds like you don't think it was fair of the US Government to seize the property of the commander of an insurrectionist army - a strategic property with a promontory above and adjacent to the capital of the US.  It's little different than the emancipation of any other 'property'. [/quote]

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