An Open Response in OPPOSITION to the Draft FONSI Regarding Significant Impact (Removal of Confederate Reconciliation Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery)
December 1, 2023
Dear Ms. Lunelle,
When you asked me to read the documents posted on Arlington National Cemetery website about the removal of the Reconciliation Memorial there, and the reame of paper you gave me, I had to put it down and write before finishing it all.
On our weekly Defend Arlington calls the mighty fine lawyer, Miss Karen, informed us that the Army had arbitrarily removed a significant roadblock to the dirty deed they are about to do when it dropped its Environmental IMpact Study under the National Environmental Protection Act in favor of a quicker process, called and an “Environmental Assessment”, which they have already competed in draft, and issued a “Finding of No Significant Impact” (FONSI). I say poppycock.
Below is the letter I sent on behalf of Veterans Defending Arlington and hope that others will do the same, perhaps with other impacts that they believe are significant to our ‘environment’. Please let everyone know the deadline for submittal is Saturday, December 2, 2023 at 11:39 p.m. Eastern.
The Submittal Link is HERE
To read the Army’s offensive assessment, visit their web site HERE.
God bless you!
Your brother,
HK
Chairman Board of Advisors Emeritus Southern Legal Resource Center
Member Save Southern Heritage Florida
Recipient Sons of Confederate Veterans Virginia Division General Robert E. Lee Medal
Recipient United Daughters of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis Medal
Recipient National Order of the Confederate Rose Life Time Achievement Medal
Recipient Key to the City of Toccoa, Georgia
Recipient Key to the City of Carthage, Texas
Kentucky Colonel
Honorary Camp Commander Granbury Texas Brigade Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp 1479
Honorary Associate Member Abner Baker Chapter 14 United Daughters of the Confederacy
President Southern Heritage 411
Veterans Defending Arlington is strongly opposed to the finding of No Significant Impact.
There is more to consider than just what is discussed in the EA or the FONSI. The decision to eliminate the EIS in favor of an EA forecloses on a full understanding of the wide-reaching societal and environmental impacts by the removal of the Confederate Reconciliation Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery or any parts thereof.
I believe this action generated by the Congressional Naming Commission is one of the most egregious acts of betrayal in the annals of recorded United States History with parallel only to the illegal invasion of the Southern homeland sanctioned by Lincoln. And has a "Human Impact" as it is seen by the Southern people that removes any trust or thoughts of between the regions of this country deemed North and South that will never overcome this yet another moment of deceit.
It is we the Southern people who gave a Grace at Arlington synonymous to our Lord and Master Jesus Christ giving one to Satan in the building of this Memorial Shrine deemed Reconciliation.
President McKinley knew what the Army of the Potomac did to the defenseless old men women and children of the South. And so does men like Mark Levin( Fox News syndicated television Contributor)who proposed that Israel do the same to the Palestinian people as did Sherman, Turchin, and Grant did to the Southern people as they carried out Lincoln's total warfare policy.
McKinley bowed his head and bent a knee to the Southern women and asked for something that he truly believed that he would not receive; forgiveness and reconciliation for something so bad that it would be hard for the Almighty God to forgive he and his men for. He knew that if these women would forgive them, and build a Reconciliation Memorial, not only only would this action help heal the Nation; there was hope to find the Grace of the Almighty God and a place in his Heaven.
It mattered not that the Northern Revisionists History Writers would write to glorify what the Northern military factions had done. McKinley remembered the long lines of horse and mule trains that headed North with stolen Southern family treasures and even the lands of General Robert E. Lee right here at Arlington, the cries of little boys and girls especially the slaves from the rape they had no way for their young minds to understand, watching grandma and grandpa killed for screaming out no and for embracing their Black Nanny who sought to give them and her children comfort from the evil onslaught.
And no where in the 21st century the real "Impact " is the people of the South will return to the of hate they for the North and their armed forces and not to forget their Reconstruction occupation and how they continue to try and inculcate into our childrens’ minds that our ancestors stood wrongly against the stealing and circumventing of the Constitution and the Rule of law and the Equal Protection it afforded them as written in a majority by Southern Lawmakers.
HK Edgerton
Veterans Defending Arlington
Son of Former Loyal Southern Slaves
