On Saturday, the National Park Service returned the statue of Brig. Gen. Albert Pike to its home after being in storage for over five years.
The only statue of a Confederate general in the nation’s capital was pulled down by ropes and chains and then lit on fire on Juneteenth 2020 by demonstrators who were protesting the murder of George Floyd.
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Over the years, members of the D.C. government tried to have the statute removed, including in 1992, when the D.C. Council petitioned the federal government.
The statue’s return to the Judiciary Square neighborhood in the District is thanks to President Donald Trump’s executive order, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.”
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DC’s only outdoor statue of a Confederate general is back in a Judiciary Square park