The Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery was erected in 1914. The Naming Commission reported that it “offers a nostalgic, mythologized vision of the Confederacy, including highly sanitized depictions of slavery” and recommended it be destroyed, to Wit:

• “Standing on a pedestal, a bronze, classical female figure, crowned with olive leaves, represents the American South.”

• “The monument’s pedestal features 14 shields, engraved with the coats of arms of the 11 Confederate states, plus Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri.”

• The inclusion of the last three states “distorts history by inflating the Confederacy’s size, support and significance.”

• “Thirty-two life-sized figures depict mythical gods alongside Southern soldiers and civilians. Two of these figures are portrayed as African-American: an enslaved woman depicted as a ‘Mammy’, holding the infant child of a white officer, and an enslaved man following his owner to war.”

• “An inscription of the Latin phrase ‘Victrix causa diis placuit sed victa Caton’ – which means, ‘The victorious cause was pleasing to the gods, but the lost cause to Cato’ – construes the South’s secession as a noble ‘Lost Cause’.”

• “This narrative of the Lost Cause, which romanticized the pre-Civil War South and denied the horrors of slavery, fueled white backlash against Reconstruction and the rights that the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments (1865-1870) had granted to African-Americans.”

• “The image of the faithful slave, embodied in the two figures on the memorial, appeared widely in American popular culture during the 1910s through 1930s, perhaps most famously in the 1939 film ‘Gone with the Wind’.”

This is evidence enough to violate the sanctity of a cemetery and denigrate the ancestors of millions of Americans. So strong is their case, they summoned Gone with the Wind. The warrant leaves out that the Jewish sculptor is buried at the base of the Memorial.