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Bronze Ku Klux Klan plaque and relics to Confederate chief Robert E. Lee need to be stripped down from West Point, congressional panel says

A congressional committee has said that a bronze Ku Klux Klan plaque and relics to Confederate chief Robert E. Lee hanging at the prestigious West Point military academy ought to be removed.

The request from the Naming Commission, which is tasked with reviewing and changing military assets that memorialize Confederate figures, was aired in a report published by the agency Monday.

Or you could do the smart thing and use it to teach some history.

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