Arlington National Cemetery

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  5/9/2023
  

  Arlington Cemetery Will Remove its Racist Confederate Monument, but Some Won't Let it Go

  by Erin L. Thompson

  The Arlington Confederate Memorial, according to a Defense Department review, mythologizes history so severely that no contextualizing signage could overcome its embodiment of the Lost Cause myths that justified Jim Crow. Some adherents of that myth are mad. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/7/2022
  

  The Troubling History of Arlington Cemetery's Confederate Monument

  by Samantha Baskind

  The monument misrepresents the history of the Confederacy, and is itself a document of the way that white supremacy enabled a national "reconciliation" after the Civil War. 

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  9-7-16
  

  Elaine Harmon, Female WWII Pilot, Will Finally Be Laid to Rest at Arlington

  It took an act of Congress, but World War II pilot Elaine Harmon is finally being laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  5-21-16
  

  Female World War II Pilots Can Now Have Their Ashes at Arlington National Cemetery

  The pilots were previously excluded from the cemetery under official policy.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  2-27-16
  

  Female Pilot Unit Gains Support in Congress for Right to Arlington Burials

  The Army, which oversees Arlington National Cemetery, says her wartime unit — known as the WASPs, shorthand for Women Airforce Service Pilots — was not technically part of the military.

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• SOURCE: Military.com
  1-1-16
  

  Women WWII Pilots Denied Final Rest at Arlington National Cemetery

  "These women have been fighting this battle, off and on, for over 50 years now."