Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia said it means “very much” that his father, the late Supreme Court Justice of the United States, Antonin Scalia, be included in the national garden proposed by President Trump to remember dozens of heroes Americans.
“It would mean a lot. I didn’t see it coming … and it was really moving to hear it. I hope it also means a lot to the American people,” Scalia said on “Fox News Sunday.”
“We need heroes. We need to admire our ancestors and recognize what is great and good in our past. That is what the president is emphasizing at the moment, “he added.
The president wrapped up his speech Friday night at Mount Rushmore by announcing that he will sign an executive order creating the “National Garden of American Heroes,” an outdoor park with statues of the “best Americans ever to exist.” .
Along with Scalia, the monuments would commemorate a number of famous Americans, including John Adams, Susan B. Anthony, Alexander Hamilton, Frederick Douglass, and Dolley Madison.
It comes after the president signed an executive order last month regarding the Veterans in Memory Recognition and Preservation Act, which would allow people convicted of knocking down statues or defacing monuments to be beaten with 10-year prison terms. .
Protests that have spread across the country since George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police officers on May 25 have included calls for police and judicial reforms.
Some of the protesters have turned their anger into statues of historical figures, overthrowing or painting with graffiti.
They also want to rename American military bases named after Confederate soldiers.
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