Virginian Democrats Vote to Remove War Memorial Protection

Late Tuesday, legislation to repeal Virginia's war memorial protection was passed by both houses in our General Assembly.

The Senate vote was along straight party lines. ALL Republicans voted to protect them. ALL Democrats voted to allow them to be destroyed.

We’ve been telling you all that we knew in November that Democrats in Virginia would likely do everything they could to remove protection of the Commonwealth’s war memorials this session, and continue their efforts to punish us by doing everything they can to erase our history and silence us.

We’ve also been telling you that although we worked with and helped support a coalition working behind the scenes to try and stop this, we were also preparing for the worst.

What’s next?

Next we fight.

We fight every attempt by any locality in Virginia to remove, destroy or desecrate our memorials. We fight to have localities pass their own measures to proactively protect war memorials. We fight by raising flags AND memorials on private property. We fight by continuing to do what is OUR responsibility... honor our Confederate dead.

We have 28 memorial battle flags flying with two more currently under construction. We want our next to be somewhere in Richmond.

Help us make that happen!