Sad commentary on ignorance of General Lee’s life. After the war, he dedicated himself to education and preservation of the union. He could have gathered former Rebels and refought the war through guerillas but he chose peace instead. They took his land to make Arlington Cemetery. I never hear anyone say that veterans shouldn’t be buried there because slaves might have walked those fields.
What you get when you purge God from schools and replace the faculty with Satanists and Stalinist degenerates.
Technically, the land was inherited by his wife from her father, George Washington Parke Custis, with the stipulation that she could never sell it, and that it then pass to her son, Custis Lee. Robert E. Lee never had any ownership of the property. In 1877, Custis Lee sued the government and won back the estate, then turned around and sold it to them.
People should take some time to read Lee’s biography.
His record at West Point
His service in the Mexican American war
His character and experience which caused him to be offered the leadership of the Union and Confederate armies
The importance of states rights in 1860 thought
His instructions to his troops at Appomattox
His friendship with Grant
His service as President of Washington College
His efforts at reconciliation.
Then look in the mirror and see how you measure up!