None of you understand what family means.
You’ve probably got your mom or dad in a nursing home and told yourself you can’t take care of them so it’s ok. They’ll get better treatment there anyway...Right?
Well there was a time when the idea of shooting down your children, brothers, cousins, uncles, and best friends and neighbors was a bit much...you might say it was unimaginable.
So all of the people that thought that is exactly what LEE should have done tells me that even in the conservative movement there are idiots who have no moral code, no love of kin, and no sense of place. AND I PROMISE YOU THAT NONE OF WERE BORN AND RAISED IN THE SOUTH.
So keep embarrassing yourself by saying the men who WERE CONSCRIPTED BY THEIR LEGAL GOVERNMENT......MARCHED OFF TO FIGHT....AND GAVE IT ALL for their families and kin are somehow not worthy of respect.
Y’all must be trolls or idgits of the first degree.
First degree idiots is my guess.
Two of his relatives signed the Declaration of Independence.
I guess these retards bashing Lee have a problem with the American Revolution too.
Actually about 40% of military officers from Virginia stayed loyal to the union and did not join a rebellion to establish a country based on slavery. Here is a list of other prominent southerners who stayed loyal to the Union. They should be lauded for making the right choice. Lee chose poorly.
John Minor Botts[9]
Thomas E. Bramlette[10]
Robert Jefferson Breckinridge[11]
William Gannaway Brownlow[12]
William Cannon[13]
William Crutchfield[14]
Thomas H. DuVal
Emerson Etheridge[15]
Andrew Jackson Hamilton[16]
Joshua Hill[17]
William Woods Holden[18]
Joseph Holt[19][20]
Sam Houston[21][22]
Fielding Hurst [23]
Andrew Johnson [24]
Newton Knight
David Farragut
William Hugh Smith
Francis Lieber[25]
Montgomery C. Meigs[26]
Isaac Murphy[27][28]
Thomas Amos Rogers Nelson[29]
James L. Petigru[30]
Francis Harrison Pierpont[31]
Joseph G. Sanders[26]
Winfield Scott[26]
James Speed and Joshua Fry Speed[32]
George Henry Thomas
Elizabeth Van Lew
James Madison Wells[26]
I disagree.
Contemplate for a moment the tens - the HUNDREDS of thousands of lives (north and south alike) that would have been saved had REL not turned his back on his oath during the dirty insurrection.