{"id":172460,"date":"2025-08-06T13:19:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T17:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=172460"},"modified":"2025-08-06T13:19:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T17:19:15","slug":"confederate-memorial-returns-to-arlington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=172460","title":{"rendered":"Confederate Memorial Returns to Arlington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-167171 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/pete-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/pete-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/pete.jpg 334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>SECDEF<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;&#8230;taken down by woke lemmings&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Pete Hegseth Orders Return of Confederate Memorial to Arlington National Cemetery<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Hannah Knudsen<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is committed to rooting out woke, and that includes returning confederate memorials to their rightful places.<\/p>\n<p>In an X post on Tuesday, Hegseth announced the grand return of the Confederate Memorial, commonly known as \u201cReconciliation Monument.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m proud to announce that Moses Ezekiel\u2019s beautiful and historic sculpture \u2014 often referred to as \u2018The Reconciliation Monument\u2019 \u2014 will be rightfully be returned to Arlington National Cemetery near his burial site,\u201d Hegseth announced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt never should have been taken down by woke lemmings,\u201d he continued. \u201cUnlike the Left, we don\u2019t believe in erasing American history \u2014 we honor it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The monument was removed in 2023 under former Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin during Joe Biden\u2019s presidency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2025\/08\/06\/pete-hegseth-orders-return-of-confederate-memorial-to-arlington-national-cemetery\/\">Breitbart<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-159748 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/bz-1723226997.6357-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"bz\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/bz-1723226997.6357-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/bz-1723226997.6357.jpg 376w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SECDEF &#8220;&#8230;taken down by woke lemmings&#8230;&#8221; Pete Hegseth Orders Return of Confederate Memorial to Arlington National &hellip; <a title=\"Confederate Memorial Returns to Arlington\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=172460\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Confederate Memorial Returns to Arlington<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,410],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-pentagon","category-bravo-zulu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}