WATCH: Biden Admin Begins Removal Of Arlington National Cemetery 'Reconciliation Momument'

On Monday, the Biden administration began the removal of the Confederate Memorial, a statue arguably constructed to display the reconciliation between the North and the South following the Civil War, in the Arlington National Cemetary as the White House continues its push to remove various statues and other memorials to Confederate soldiers.

The Department of Defense mandated that the statue be removed by January 1, 2024, after Congress established the Naming Commission in 2021, which sought to rid the military of the statues, monuments, and names that commemorated Confederate soldiers or generals who fought the Union from 1861 to 1865.

A spokesman for the Arlington National Cemetary told The New York Times that the statue after fencing was constructed around it over the weekend, would be removed by the end of the week and sent to storage. What will come of it after that point has yet to be determined.

Over 40 Republican members of Congress signed a letter last week demanding Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin reverse the decision to remove the statue, arguing that the memorial does not honor the Confederacy but instead "commemorates reconciliation and national unity."

"[I]n 1898, following the Spanish-American War, where Union and Confederate veterans fought side-by-side under one flag, President William McKinley declared in the heart of the South, Atlanta, Georgia, that the U.S. government would commit to sharing in the burden of honoring and properly burying the Confederate dead, stating, 'sectional feelings no longer holds back the love we feel for each other. The old flag waves over us in peace with new glories,'" the lawmakers explained. "In 1900, Congress authorized Confederate remains to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery, and in 1906, Secretary of War, William Howard Taft, permitted construction of a monument honoring our country's new shared reconciliation from its troubled divisions. Finally, in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson unveiled this new memorial to national unity – designed by a Jewish-American sculptor, the memorial is topped with a woman crowned by an olive wreath to symbolize peace."

The Republican congressmen went on to explain that the Naming Commission overstepped its authority and that the removal should be suspended until Congress completes appropriations for 2024. Despite their efforts, Austin refused to submit to their demands and went forward with the removal. The statue's removal is part of a growing trend of statue removal honoring historical figures, even those not members of the Confederacy.

Earlier this year, a statue of Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, was removed from New York City Hall after 187 years with the Public Design Commission responsible for the removal, explaining that it was due to the fact that he was a slave owner. "Thomas Jefferson was a slaveholder who owned over 600 human beings," Councilmember Adrienne Adams said, per CNN. "It makes me deeply uncomfortable knowing that we sit in the presence of a statue that pays homage to a slaveholder who fundamentally believed that people who look like me were inherently inferior, lacked intelligence, and were not worthy of freedom or right."

It is clear that those who wish to remove history are not willing to stop at statues honoring the Confederacy. The removal of Confederate statues is only the beginning, as the left seeks to remove American history one statue at a time.

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