Army blows off Republicans' request to keep Confederate memorial: report
Raw StoryThe U.S. Army has reportedly decided it will move forward with the removal of a Confederate memorial, despite the fact that dozens of Republican lawmakers cautioned against it. The Army says it will start next week on the removal of the memorial from the Arlington National Cemetery, according to the Washington Post. The Army was planning to remove the memorial as part of its ongoing efforts to rid itself of "rebel imagery," according to the Washington Post. "This month, 44 Republican lawmakers cautioned Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the first African American to hold the post, that the Pentagon would overstep its authority by removing the memorial and they demanded that all efforts to do so stop until Congress works through next year’s appropriations bill," the Saturday article states. "The Army, which operates Arlington Cemetery, informed lawmakers Friday that it would proceed with the monument’s removal, officials told The Washington Post, because it was required by the end of the year to comply with a law to identify and remove assets that commemorate the Confederacy," according to the article.
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