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Washington and Lee University administrators have failed to restore the plaques honoring Traveller, the horse that carried Robert E. Lee through the campaigns that defended the constitutional order of the South. Three years after their public assurance, the memorials stay hidden from sight while campus renovations proceed without them.
This omission is not an oversight but the deliberate work of the Dispossessors who now govern the institution once named for both Washington and Lee. Their refusal continues the systematic removal of every visible sign that the Confederacy formed part of the ordered inheritance of Western Christendom.
The same spirit that toppled statues after 2020 now works through quiet administrative inaction. It treats the memory of Lee and his mount as contaminants that must be purged from the public square.
Christendom has always measured fidelity by the care given to the graves and memorials of its fathers. When the iconoclasts of the sixteenth century stripped the churches, they acted from the same conviction that the past must be made to disappear before the new order could rule unchallenged.
The governing principle at stake is the ancient duty to honor what has been handed down. Scripture commands the remembrance of the righteous; the creeds themselves are acts of memory that bind generations; the lawful inheritance of a people includes the record of its heroes and its defeats.
Universities that erase their own founders declare themselves enemies of the very tradition that gave them existence. They become instruments of the Managerial Priesthood that reduces every inheritance to raw material for ideological reconstruction.
The faithful remnant must therefore treat such institutions as occupied territory. They must recover the physical record of their fathers wherever it survives and build new places of learning that do not require permission to remember.
The plaques of Traveller will not return under the present regime. Their absence stands as a standing judgment upon the administrators who broke their word and upon every alumnus who still funds the erasure.
