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But seriously,

the oversized plaques, dedicated in 1965, not only featured Lee and other supporters of the Confederacy but an image of an armed man in a hood, with “Ku Klux Klan” written below.

That says a lot that the US military institution put this up in 1965 of all years....
Vanquish is quite the word choice >

It's a military academy, they're gonna wage trench warfare against the symbols >

A battle hard(ly) fought over the last 157 or so years. Makes the trench warfare of WWI look positively efficient.