“Every line and curve & expression carries the plea for a truly united nation that may be equal to the burdens of these exacting times. It speaks to us the ardent wish, the untiring purpose, to help make our people one people, secure in independence...” – President Harding’s words in 1921 about the Arlington Cemetery Reconciliation Monument in Section 16, the Confederate Memorial sculpted by Sir Moses Ezekiel, the first Jewish graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and a confederate veteran. Today’s show is about the return of the memorial after it was removed by the Biden Administration’s Renaming commission, a violation of the law that created the commission in my opinion. This Saturday, Oct. 25 at 2 PM in Section 16 at Arlington National Cemetery, we will gather to honor Sir Moses Ezekiel thanks to the courage and conviction of President Donald J. Trump and Pete Hegseth celebrate the monument’s impending return. I will be the emcee of the ceremony and my guest today is General John Scales, will speak about why this is important. General Scales is a native of Huntsville, Alabama. He led a rifle platoon in combat in Vietnam and joined the 101st Airborne upon return to the US. Leaving active duty in 1975, he joined the 20th Special Forces Group (Airborne) of the Alabama National Guard. There he commanded a Special Forces Operational Detachment A, a company, a battalion, and the 20th Group itself. He also received a Ph.D. in systems engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Promoted to general, he was first the deputy commander and later the acting commanding general of the US Army Special Forces Command. After 9/11 he was assigned to the Joint Special Operations Command and led a Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force in Afghanistan. General Scales retired from the military in late 2002 and continued his career as an engineer in Huntsville, being granted six patents and publishing three military history books and one novel.

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