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In the wake of the violence, communities across the country said they would take down Confederate memorials — and Christ Church in Alexandria said it would also remove a plaque erected in memory of George Washington, who was one of its founding members and still has his family pew demarcated.

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Christ Church, though, said the two men were inextricably linked in history and had to be considered together, since they were erected together and visually balance each other.

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