Restraining Order Halts Removal Of Dallas Robert E. Lee Statue

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Restraining Order Halts Removal Of Dallas Robert E. Lee Statue



About time.

Via Fox News:

    A temporary restraining order Wednesday spared a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from being taken down — just hours after the Dallas City Council signed off on the removal.

    The vote to remove the Lee statue from its namesake park in the Dallas neighborhood of Oak Lawn passed 13-1 at midday Wednesday, with one council member abstaining.

    Work began an hour later to remove the statue. A crane was moved into place and workers put straps over the sculpture to be removed. But their work was halted at 4:30 p.m. when a district court judge granted a temporary restraining order to the Texas division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/06/dallas-robert-e-lee-statue-spared-by-restraining-order.html

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Columns > In Defense of Lee And Jackson - chuckbaldwinlive.com August 24, 2017; Excerpt:

    people will be surprised to learn that Confederate soldiers are officially American Veterans by four separate acts of Congress (1900, 1906, 1929, and 1958).

http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/Ariticles/tabid/109/ID/3640/In-Defense-of-Lee-And-Jackson.aspx


 It’s true that Union and Confederate soldiers are considered U.S. veterans under federal law

The groundwork for reconciliation, however, was laid decades before Confederate soldiers and family members became available for federal benefits.

President William McKinley cited reconciliation between the North and South in a speech that followed the conclusion of the Spanish American War on December 14, 1898.

McKinley called for federal recognition of Union and Confederate soldiers because he viewed them all as Americans.