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If there's anyone from the Confederacy who deserves a memorial, it's Robert E. Lee
LA Times (really) ^ | May 23, 2017 | Murray Levine

Posted on 05/23/2017 12:49:38 PM PDT by Leaning Right

To the editor: So Mayor Mitch Landrieu and the City Council of New Orleans feel that the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was a “public nuisance”? (“New Orleans removes a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from its perch of 133 years,” May 19)

Good thing Landrieu is not mayor of Washington, where the Vietnam Veterans Memorial represents a period of public divisiveness. It has been called the memorial that nobody wanted except the Vietnam vets.

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TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: confederacy; dixie; lee; robertelee
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This is evidently a letter to the editor. The writer makes many good points. It's a bit surprising that the LA Times chose to print it.
1 posted on 05/23/2017 12:49:38 PM PDT by Leaning Right
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To: Leaning Right

When the war started, Lee owned no slaves, but Grant did - I think they tore down the wrong statue.


2 posted on 05/23/2017 12:52:08 PM PDT by impactplayer
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To: impactplayer

“When the war started, Lee owned no slaves, but Grant did - I think they tore down the wrong statue.”

Where in New Orleans is the Ulysses S. Grant statue?


3 posted on 05/23/2017 12:54:25 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: Leaning Right

R E Lee was the greatest American general.


4 posted on 05/23/2017 12:56:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Leaning Right

There are many more CSA icons who are deserving of a memorial, but I get the general point.


5 posted on 05/23/2017 12:56:35 PM PDT by awelliott (What one generation tolerates, the next embraces....)
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To: BenLurkin
Marse Robert, beyond just being the greatest general, he is neck and neck with George Washington for being the greatest American. No finer American ever lived—morally and spiritually—than Robert E. Lee.
6 posted on 05/23/2017 1:02:13 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (My wish list: https, failover server, six sigma uptime.)
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To: Leaning Right

Destroying historical artifacts should be illegal. Wait until these fiends find out there are similar artifacts and portraits in museums and galleries - will they trash them too?

Before modern photography and sound recording, history was documented in sculpture and paintings.

God help us.


7 posted on 05/23/2017 1:05:48 PM PDT by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
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To: Timpanagos1

What is your point?


8 posted on 05/23/2017 1:07:07 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Timpanagos1

Washington, New York, and Chicago have grant memorials honoring the slave owner....


9 posted on 05/23/2017 1:10:17 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Leaning Right
when will the city of NOLA remove all traces of that bad slave nation, France? and outlaw caste-based languages?
10 posted on 05/23/2017 1:13:52 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: JBW1949

“Washington, New York, and Chicago have grant memorials honoring the slave owner....”

In the original post, it was implied that ‘they’ took down the wrong statue.

And being that the only ‘they’ that took down the Robert E. Lee statue was the City of New Orleans, I was asking where in New Orleans the Grant Statue was located.

If there is a Grant statue in New Orleans, and the city owns that statue, they can take it down. It’s their statue.


11 posted on 05/23/2017 1:18:11 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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"the Vietnam Veterans Memorial represents a period of public divisiveness. It has been called the memorial that nobody wanted except the Vietnam vets."

That has to be the most insulting, stupid, offensive thing anyone could say about that memorial. It list all the dead young men who gave everything they had to this country and it is a comfort to the families of those young men and those of us who survived. It only goes to show the rank sliminess and ingratitude of the dimbulb Left.

12 posted on 05/23/2017 1:18:26 PM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: BenLurkin

> R E Lee was the greatest American general. <

Perhaps him and Washington (in no particular order). Grant, Ike, Patton, etc. all had their qualities. But all of them fought from a position of advantage. Lee and Washington were underdogs.


13 posted on 05/23/2017 1:20:02 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Chainmail

I think you missed the writer’s rather obtuse point. I believe he was saying that both the Civil War and the Vietnam War were divisive. One should not pull down a statue just because it marked a divisive period in our history.


14 posted on 05/23/2017 1:23:13 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Timpanagos1

I see...I misunderstood your post...Sorry about that...


15 posted on 05/23/2017 1:23:39 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: impactplayer
When the war started, Lee owned no slaves, but Grant did - I think they tore down the wrong statue.

Other way around.

16 posted on 05/23/2017 1:24:10 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Leaning Right
He got the part about the slaves wrong. Lee freed the last of them in December 1862, not years before the Civil War.

For the record I'm opposed to removing the statues in New Orleans.

17 posted on 05/23/2017 1:26:25 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Leaning Right

At West Point, cadets study the military strategies of Robert E Lee and Stonewall Jackson, among others. Removing the monuments to these great generals will remove the historical context for these battles and strategies.

Besides that, another letter to the LA Times asserts that removing the monuments will enable Americans to “stop fighting the Civil War”. Well, the anti-Trump “resistance” is planning a summer of violence that might constitute a new American civil war. Are we to believe that the AntiFa insurrection of 2017 is our first civil war?


18 posted on 05/23/2017 1:27:21 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Leaning Right
No, I think you missed the point: the Vietnam War wasn't "divisive" - that's a fiction of the Left. We had a very effective and treasonous pro-enemy organization subverting everything to help the Communists to win. It was as "antiwar" as a hand grenade.

Once the Democrats and the media joined up, Hanoi had it made. The American people were the ones that provided the more than 2 million young men who served their country during that period.

Those clowns certainly didn't want the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial. Too bad.

19 posted on 05/23/2017 1:30:59 PM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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> the Vietnam War wasn’t “divisive” - that’s a fiction of the Left. We had a very effective and treasonous pro-enemy organization subverting everything to help the Communists to win. It was as “antiwar” as a hand grenade <

True that. But nevertheless some folks do see that war as divisive. We shouldn’t remove a statue (or a monument) just because someone thinks it’s “divisive”. That’s all the writer here is trying to say.


20 posted on 05/23/2017 1:38:38 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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