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Arlington Monument Removal Part of America’s “Cultural Revolution”
Alex Newman/The New American
One nation: The Reconciliation Monument was dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery in 1914 as a symbol of the reconciliation of the North and the South after the Civil War.

Arlington Monument Removal Part of America’s “Cultural Revolution”

The removal of the Reconciliation Monument at Arlington was part of an attempt to change America’s culture by erasing its history. ...
Steve Byas
Article audio sponsored by The John Birch Society

The pre-Christmas removal of the “Reconciliation Monument” at Arlington National Cemetery is just the latest example of the “Cultural Revolution” sweeping America. It is a shocking example of the efforts of American Marxists and their dupes to 1) erase history and send it down the Orwellian “memory hole,” 2) create division instead of unity in the country, and 3) advance a political agenda designed to promote their radical vision for the future.

It is a vision that predated Karl Marx, and is at least as old as the bloody French Revolution and the radical secret societies that brought it on. While the term “radical” is often used as a synonym for “extreme,” it is more accurately used to designate efforts to destroy existing social institutions and replace them with a new social structure. The French radicals did all they could to eliminate the structures of French society. They changed the law code, they changed the calendar, and they even changed playing cards. But their particular target was religion, especially Christianity. They toppled monuments to the past, replacing statues of Christian saints in the cathedral of Notre Dame (one of the premier symbols of the Christian civilization they hated) with statues of “secular saints” such as Voltaire and Rousseau. 

They had no desire for reconciliation with those they opposed. 

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