{"id":3111,"date":"2023-09-08T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commonsensesociety.org\/?p=3111"},"modified":"2023-12-11T15:48:37","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T20:48:37","slug":"debates-over-arlington-confederate-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commonsensesociety.org\/nl\/2023\/09\/08\/debates-over-arlington-confederate-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Debates Over Arlington\u2019s Confederate Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>EXCERPT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jim Webb, a former U.S. senator from Virginia, former secretary of the Navy, man of letters, and a Vietnam platoon leader with a heroic combat record, recently rendered a public service in coming to the defense of the endangered century-old Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/save-the-confederate-memorial-at-arlington-art-history-preservation-civil-war-64464979?mod=Searchresults_pos3&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a\u00a0<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u00a0commentary<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cI cannot imagine,\u201d Webb wrote, \u201cthat the removal of this memorial, conceived and built with the sole purpose of healing the wounds of the Civil War and restoring national harmony, could be within the intent of a sweeping sentence placed inside a nearly trillion-dollar piece of legislation.\u201d The legislation in question being the National Defense Authorization Act of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Catesby Leigh\u00a0is a senior fellow of\u00a0Common Sense Society.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full article in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/debates-over-arlingtons-confederate-memorial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The American Conservative<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2021 National Defense Authorization Act that established the Naming Commission forbids removal of grave markers.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":3112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-op-ed"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Debates Over Arlington\u2019s Confederate Memorial - Common Sense Society<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The 2021 National Defense Authorization Act that established the Naming Commission forbids removal of grave markers.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commonsensesociety.org\/nl\/2023\/09\/08\/debates-over-arlington-confederate-memorial\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"nl_NL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Debates Over Arlington\u2019s Confederate Memorial\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The 2021 National Defense Authorization Act that established the Naming Commission forbids removal of grave markers. 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