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In this alcove along Fairfax Boulevard used to sit The First Soldier of the South to Shed His Blood for the Confederacy, a monument dedicated in 1927 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. (Michael O Connell | Patch)
The official seal of the City of Fairfax includes the image of a Confederate soldier. (Michael O Connell/Patch)
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors voted in September to remove a Confederate monument from the grounds of the old Fairfax County Courthouse. (Mark Hand/Patch)
FAIRFAX CITY, VA In recent weeks, workers have been demolishing the vacant Travelodge on Fairfax Boulevard to make way for a new Wawa gas station. A stone wall separates the property from the sidewalk that runs along the road. At one point, the wall dips toward the demolished building and forms an alcove that sits empty except for a collection of leaves and debris.
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FASKIANOS: Good afternoon and welcome to the Council on Foreign Relations Social Justice and Foreign Policy webinar series. I m Irina Faskianos, vice president for the National Program and Outreach here at CFR. As a reminder, today s webinar is on the record and the audio, video, and transcript will be available on our website, CFR.org, and on our iTunes podcast channel,
Religion and Foreign Policy. As always, CFR takes no institutional positions on matters of policy. We re delighted to have a distinguished panel with us today to talk about reconciliation in the United States. We ve shared their long bios with you, so I m just going to give you a few highlights and then we ll get to the conversation.