As Arlington Cemetery's fills up, should Confederates make room?

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As Arlington Cemetery's fills up, should Confederates make room?​

By Dan K. Thomasson - Guest Columnist
June 27, 2017

WASHINGTON — Arlington National Cemetery, it seems, is running out of space. A bugler might need to play taps for the holiest and most visited of the nation's military resting places sometime around midcentury if the burial ground isn't further expanded.
But oh yes, I forgot.
Some space could be made in Section 16, where one can find buried Confederate dead and a memorial to those who fell trying to form a separate union. With today's full-out mania to wipe away visible Civil War history, at least the tributes to the South's heroes, perhaps some plots could be freed up by removing what some see as symbols of treason.


Graves of Confederate soldiers in Arlington National Cemetery's section 16, an area reserved for soldiers who fought for the South during the U.S. Civil War, in Virginia. (Kyodo)

It's doubtful most Americans even know 482 Dixie bodies are taking up room in this hallowed ground, carved from the plantation of the most famous of all Confederates, Gen. Robert E. Lee, who last stayed in the farm's mansion overlooking the U.S. Capitol the sleepless night before he decided he loved Virginia more than the rest of the nation. It was just a matter of states’ rights.
But don't tell that to those leading the current campaign to obliterate the statues and monuments studding Southern cities from Alexandria, Va., to New Orleans, an effort that has extended to discrediting Lee's motives and military genius.

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Perhaps then, those Southerners buried in the sacred grounds of Arlington should be disinterred, their memorial removed. Would that finally heal the wounds of slavery? Or would it be better to continue to acknowledge that history is unchangeable, and we need constant reminders that millions of Americans had to die on both sides to begin the drawn-out process of keeping the promise of our Founders?

Source: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/opin...ling-up-move-confederates-20170627-story.html

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Disinterring American war dead for Progressive Socialist/Marxist Leftist Antifa/BLM...MG, there is going to be such a war.
What would these idiots say if they realized the land at Arlington was Robert E. Lee’s land when they started burying soldiers there?
Confederate dead deserve the respect all veterans are shown. So tired of people trying to attack and destroy American history and heritage
Never disturb the warriors now at peace and I would include the Indian warriors.

 

Yes. They are not our future. We must only embrace our future. Never, ever must we look back on history.

 

NOBODY is going to get disinterred at Arlington.

Has the RW Fever Swamp run out of Tinfoil Hats yet?

Disinterring bodies at Arlington?

Where does the RW Fever Swamp even come up with this Conspiratorial Drivel?

Just wow.

 

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Hmm...., your name sake, Andrew Jackson our seventh president bought his first slave, a young woman, in 1788. In 1794 his business included slave trading and he had purchased at least 16 slaves on the Hermitage Plantation where the primary crop was cotton, grown by enslaved workers. By 1820 he held as many as 150 slaves. BTW, he did not free his slaves in his will.
Now his history is interesting and he was an American hero that was instrumental in the history of America. Since you are so totally in sync with the Progressive Left and #Antifa, should you really be using that moniker?

 

I think we should petition the mods to have his name removed. You know, in the name of racial equality and all.

 

If they tried to dig up Confederate soldiers it would actually likely spark a civil war.

 

Reversing the issue is sweet..... While we're at it, I'd like to disinter Edward Kennedy from Arlington Nation Cemetery. He did not serve in the military and never fought in a war and became a traitor to America when he sent that letter to Yuri Andropov.
However, those American soldiers interred at Arlington deserve to rest peacefully for eternity.

 

150+ years later SSDD.

Confederate soldiers were PARDONED by Lincoln. Not considered traitors then and they sure as hell aren't traitors now.

So much for healing and reconciliation

 

They're just playing victim again, They do it well

 

There's another name for this

Trolling