A federal judge on Monday temporarily barred the removal of a memorial to Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery after a push from a citizens group and some GOP lawmakers. The temporar…

A federal judge on Monday temporarily barred the removal of a memorial to Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery after a push from a citizens group and some GOP lawmakers.

The temporary restraining order, issued by U.S. District Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. in Alexandra, Va., comes just one day after a group called Defend Arlington, which is affiliated with a group called Save Southern Heritage Florida, filed a suit against the Department of Defense seeking a restraining order against the memorial’s removal.

It is set to expire at 5 p.m. Wednesday following an expected hearing Wednesday morning.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    11 months ago

    For about 1/10th of a second I thought, “Well, maybe not so inappropriate at Arlington. It is a place dedicated to fallen American warriors, even if they lost fighting the Union.”

    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.”

    Meh, not so bad. I kinda like the idea there.

    Some of the figures also on the statue include a Black woman depicted as “Mammy” holding what is said to be the child of a white officer, and an enslaved man following his owner to war.

    LOL my god. We’re done here. Drop that shit in the Marianna Trench.

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
      14·
      11 months ago

      Yeah, I could even understand defending a statue of Lee. I disagree with it, but I understand it.

      “A statue of a slave following his owner into battle” is all we needed to hear for this one. The rest is bad, but that’s indefensible.

    • MrMcGasion@lemmy.world
      4·
      11 months ago

      Drop that shit in the Marianna Trench.

      I wouldn’t want the creatures in the Marianna Trench to think we’re endorsing that kind of thing. Although, we arguably deserve an eldritch horror from the deep surfacing to judge us for our evil deeds.

      • Pipoca@lemmy.world
        3·
        11 months ago

        Yeah. We need to drop it into mount doom.

        Edit: apparently the Iceland volcano just started erupting. This is clearly a sign to drop it in that volcano.