I hope the removal of these monuments makes all the "people" who wanted them removed "FEEL BETTER". These soldiers are no different than any of the other veterens, who fought in all the wars the US was involved in. they were fathers, brothers, sons and cousins who for one reason or another wound up fighting for the southern confederacy. In some ways, its's not too different than those who fought in Viet Nam. The GOVERNMENT forced those men to go to war fighting for a foreign country. A lot of people have never read the TRUTH about their own American history. Ponder this: Why would the southern states want to go to war against the "north"? There must be a reason! Don't fall for the standard answer...SLAVERY !!!.

Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery to be removed despite GOP opposition      Story by Sarah Rumpf-Whitten • 23h  Fox News

The Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery is photographed on Aug. 17, 2017 in Arlington, Virginia. Calla Kessler/The Washington Post via Getty Images© (Calla Kessler/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery is photographed on Aug. 17, 2017 in Arlington, Virginia. Calla Kessler/The Washington Post via Getty Images© Calla Kessler/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Despite efforts from a group of Republican lawmakers, a Confederate statue in the Arlington National Cemetery will be removed in the coming days.

The Reconciliation Monument, known as the Confederate Statue, is part of the push to remove military installations named after the Confederacy in the wake of the summer 2020 Black Lives Matter protests.

According to a press release from the national cemetery, the statue will be removed from the cemetery by Dec. 22.

The move to remove the statue is in compliance with the Congressional mandate to remove all Confederate memorials by Jan. 1, 2024.

The Congressional mandate, passed in 2020, declared that the Department of Defense must remove all "names, symbols, displays, monuments, and paraphernalia that honor or commemorate the Confederate States of America" by Jan. 1, 2024.

Monument to the Confederate Dead, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, USA, photo by Theodor Horydczak. Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images© Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

The deconstruction of the memorial comes after a group of GOP lawmakers, led by Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., wrote a letter to Secretary Austin and demanded that they keep the Confederate Memorial in place until the end of the fiscal year 2024 appropriations process.

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