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.
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Do not disturb the dead in Arlington. Expand it. Ft Myer and Henderson Hall should move first.
ReplyDeletetoo bad Curtis took cash instead of the place when he won.
DeleteNever disturb the warriors now at peace and I would include the Indian warriors. indyjonesouthere
ReplyDeleteThey might come back to haunt you! :)
DeleteWhen I was 9 my parents took us to Washington. The second day there we went to Arlington. Dad explained we were going to visit his dad who was buried there. After we visited my grandfather's grave we took the tour that they had. It carried us to all the pats of the estate with the final stop at the tomb of the unknowns. The tour guide informed us that all the tombstones at Arlington had rounded tops except for the are reserved for the Confederate soldiers. She explained that the Confederate soldiers grave markers had pointed tops to keep the damn yankees from sitting on them. This was the summer of 1970.
ReplyDeleteIt was 4 years latter when I found out damn yankee were two separate words.
It was 4 years latter when I found out damn yankee were two separate words.
DeleteYou're a good man, Charlie Brown! :)
NO! What rude and horrible thought. Our confederate dead deserve all the respect all veterns are shown. so tired of people trying to attack and destroy my heritage
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely.
DeletePeople that think like this are savages and barbarians.
ReplyDelete& Goddamnyankees.
Deletehttp://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=136&highlight=mother+yankees
The most beautiful and moving monument in America is in the Confederate section of Arlington National cemetery. (Yes, CS veterans are legally AMERICAN VETERANS)
ReplyDeleteThose buried there at their own request include Moses Ezikial. Ezikial was Jewish. He had been a 16 old VMI cadet when he went into battle at New Market where those boys routed a superior force of veteran Yankee infantry in a frontal assault across open ground.
After the war he continued his education in Europe and became a world renowned sculptor. He was commissioned by the UDC to create the Confederate monument at Arlington.
Around the base of the feminine figure that represents the South beating her sword into a plowshare there are raised relief figures representing confederate soldiers (one of them African BTW) and civilians faithful to the South (one of them African also).
Ezikial's common law wife in Paris was an African woman who bore him a daughter.
Moses Ezikial's bones lie beneath his greatest work of art today.
Guess none of this will matter when the "progressive" barbarians like the author of the article above, come for his monument and his and his comrades bones.
Well said and thank you. I have much on him at NamSouth and FNC. Did you know that he held Thomas Garland Jefferson in his arms as he died after the battle.
DeleteRelax. It's just more fake news to keep the masses spun up. No one is even considering this. Arlington cemetery has lots of plans for expansion (near and far term). But the simple fact is, there is a limited amount of land in the USA and we aren't making any more. No matter how big we make Arlington, it will eventually overflow again. At some point, human remains decay to dust and the land can be reused.
Deletehuman remains decay to dust and the land can be reused.
DeleteDon't think you'd get many votes for that. :)
American funerary customs are silly. A hero should be remembered for his life, not where his bones rot. The honor resides in the memories of the living, not the dirt.
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