Since Donald Trump returned to office, his administration has been working to put the names of various Confederates who tried to destroy the United States to preserve slavery back in positions of honor. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ’s most recent effort in this crusade is particularly egregious:

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Hegseth’s post links to an opinion piece in The Blaze touting the Moses Ezekiel monument as a testament to the “national healing” between north and south that was taking place when it was built in 1914.

The monument is actually a prime example of an attempt to revise and sanitize the actual history of the Civil War. As Arlington National Cemetery’s own website explains (in text which may well soon be scrubbed by Hegseth’s commissars), it presents a “mythologized vis

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