Thanks, Bob, for your excellent tutorial on Jewish/Arab "fact and fiction".....not to mention the data on the Civil War and the Slave Trade.
Thanks also to the many freepers on this thread who are adding to the intelligent, civil discourse. I'm glad I clicked on it this morning. So many details that were new to me.
I'm now ready to accept the appointment as Secretary of State in the new Republican administration!
Leni
Forgive me for dragging you back to this thread. Ask just about anyone what they know about how Arlington National Cemetery came to be and all they will say is, 'It is the place where we bury our honored dead.'
In fact, Arlington was Robert E. Lee's estate, facing the Capitol right across the river. Apparently, Lee did not really 'donate' the land, but he graciously let it go.
If one visits the Lee Mansion on the estate grounds, they will discover paintings of blacks dressed up in Confederate uniforms, fighting along side with white soldiers. Factually, the U.S. Army did not integrate until after WWII. In my youth in the South there were 'reunions' of black families that had war veterans in the Confederate Army... they showed off their progenitor's uniforms and medals.
Make what you wish of all this, but the point is that the public is being totally brainwashed concerning so many important issues facing us.
***I'm now ready to accept the appointment as Secretary of State***
Sounds great! Madam Secretary, take a letter...' ;-)