Reminder: Arlington is the county, along with the city of Alexandria, that was retroceded from Washington DC to Virginia prior to the Civil War. (Alexandria, once a major slave trading center, is no longer part of Arlington.)
Arlington National Cemetery is where Trump's photo-op occurred. It's 639 acres out of the county's heavily urban 26 square miles.
Non-political photo-ops are permitted in the cemetery, but not in section 60 where Trump's political photo-op took place.
@Coctaanatis Arlington is the former home of Robert. E. Lee:
"In December 1882, the Supreme Court ruled in Lee's favor. A few months later, in March 1883, the federal government purchased the property from Lee for $150,000 (over $4 million today), and Arlington National Cemetery continued its mission as a burial ground for U.S. service members and their families."
It gets even more interesting, Montgomery C. Meigs, the Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army at the time made it his life’s revenge to humiliate Lee and ensure he’d never live there again, developing and growing it over decades as a military cemetery.
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Andrew Johnson wanted to hang Lee, but Grant threatened to resign because Lee had been granted parole at Appomattox Courthouse.
And to make this EVEN MORE fascinating, Meigs was a Southerner himself from Georgia!
We don’t often hear of anti-secessionist Southerners like him who joined the Union army, (at least I haven’t), and I wonder if it’s because they cloud the myth of the Civil war being a noble cause fought by brave and noble Confederates, not barbaric, fascistic genocidalists protecting legalized rape, murder and enslavement of humans.
Meigs sounds like someone to study.
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One of the greatest union generals was George Henry Thomas, the Rock of Chickamauga, who was from Virginia.
@TheAbbotTrithemius @Coctaanatis Meigs knew how to handle a TRAITOR.