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Robert E. Lee
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/09/0907_smithgenlee_2.html
http://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/social-affairs/20110401/drama-during-a-wartime-church-service
This historical event is also portrayed in the History Channel presentation, “The Last Days of the CIVIL WAR”.
Robert E. Lee Aug 17, 05:48
JOHN OLIVER: Columbus Day: How Is This Still A Thing: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver. Aug 17, 06:13
well, *usually* good {nm} Aug 17, 10:55
is a traitor to the USA who CHOSE to fight for slavery while his sister and 40% of Virginians fought for the Union. {nm} Aug 17, 09:37
Robert E. Lee opposed Confederate monuments Aug 17, 09:40
and would have been hanged for treason if Ulysses Grant hadn't intervened on his behalf {nm} Aug 17, 11:11
8 now charged in toppling of N.C. Confederate statue Aug 17, 22:45
That assumes an ability to read. Far from a given with those hate groups. {nm} Aug 18, 05:36
Still, rather see the pyramids than read about them. {nm} Aug 18, 23:39
this explains a lot {nm} Aug 19, 22:54
You like the books with lots of pictures? {nm} Aug 25, 23:12
"I would note that Lee lent his support to a successful movement to raise funds to provide public education for the children of former slaves in Virginia, and that as President of Washington College he would repeatedly expel students who engaged in attacks on blacks. Like all of us Lee was a child of his time and place. Unlike many of us he showed an ability to transcend his time and place to some degree when it came to race". - Donald McClarey
Upon his surrender Lee pledged himself to reconciliation between North and South. To unite the country once again. Arlington National Cemetery was Lee’s estate and the federal government decreed it would be a graveyard for the Union’s dead. Lee made no complaint about that decision. As for slavery, he came to the conclusion that it was good to be rid of it. "I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished".
Removing historical statues is as ISIS who destroy monuments and historical artifacts not fitting their interpretation of Islam, the Taliban who obliterate the Buddhist statues at Bamiyan, or the Soviet-era apparatchiks busily airbrushing the images of the personae non grata from official photos during Stalin’s time.
It's rewriting history.