This Memorial Day, as we stop to honor our fallen comrades, past and present, at cemeteries and monuments across the land, we must also pause to remember that the Left and their mainstream, regime-approved allies have spent years waging a fierce and fanatical campaign of deliberate destruction against memorials to this nation’s war dead.
The assault accelerated after 2015 and reached its frenzied peak in 2020 amid the summer of love and the destructive and deadly George Floyd riots. More than 160 Confederate memorials—tributes to soldiers who fought and died in the bloodiest conflict in our history, claiming as many as 750,000 lives—were removed, toppled, or consigned to storage out of sight from public view in Democrat strongholds from Richmond to Baltimore to New Orleans. These were statues and monuments commemorating farmers, tradesmen, and young men who answered the call of their states, believing they defended and fought for the honor of their homes and way of life. Mobs pulled down and damaged statues of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and even Ulysses S. Grant, as well as many others. Meanwhile, the authorities—cravenly cowering before the madness of the wild and raging crowds instead of trying to quell or subdue them—officially removed statues, not only of Confederate heroes like Generals Lee and Stonewall Jackson but also of the so-called “Great Emancipator,” Abraham Lincoln, too. All this took place in the name of what one Stanford professor rightly characterized as “an overdue racial reckoning for America”—or, to speak more plainly and less timidly, as punishment for the country’s perceived past sins against “people of color.”
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