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(Civil War Chat) – Provided below is an email from Bo Traywick, a VMI graduate and former member of the school’s Board of Visitors, to a newspaperman who asked for his thoughts on Arlington Cemetery’s Reconciliation Monument.
Dear Jeff,
It was nice chatting with you and Jim today.
During our conversation, you brought up the monument at Arlington Cemetery. You referred to it as the Confederate Monument. This is incorrect. It is (was!) The Reconciliation Monument. It was put up at the invitation of the United States government after the Spanish/American War, when some prominent ex-Confederates like Generals Fitz Lee and Joe Wheeler served. President McKinley, a Union war veteran, invited the South to put up this monument to reconciliation between the North and the South to symbolize the healing of the rift. (Let us not forget that Arlington Cemetery was inaugurated as a petty and vindictive rebuke to General Lee, burying Union soldiers on his front lawn, who died invading us to deny us the same self government we all fought for when the thirteen [slaveholding] colonies seceded from the British Empire.)
My uncle Joe, a surgeon from South Carolina who was killed by Nazi artillery in the Hertgen Forest after having made three invasions and receiving a Silver Star, a Bronze Star, and two Purple Hearts, is buried at Arlington. So much for reconciliation.
I gave a donation to the legal cause to keep the monument in place, but my stance all along is, that the US government invited reconciliation over a hundred years ago, but now, so as not to offend anyone but Southerners, has decided to remove the monument. I am not going to petition, much less beg, the US government for reconciliation. As far as I am concerned, the government can fill up the ranks of the military with [misfits]. I went to Vietnam for that government and got spit on when I got back home, and now I am getting spit on again, so they can take reconciliation and [put it where the sun is perpetually eclipsed.] You can put that in the Times-Dispatch and sign my name to it.
Bo
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