Members of Congress are pressuring the United States Military Academy at West Point to scrub any references to Confederate soldiers.
In a letter addressed to Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) requested that West Point “correct the hurtful and outdated practice of honoring at West Point certain Americans who engaged in armed rebellion against the United States in support of racism and slavery.” ...
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