If there's anyone from the Confederacy who deserves a memorial, it's Robert E. Lee

LA Times (really) ^ | May 23, 2017 | Murray Levine

[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.

[Chainmail]

"It was a huge issue for a long time"

True. The addition of the statue and the flag transformed it. As I remember, the artist who designed the memorial, Maya Lin, objected to the 3 soldiers statue

- but tough cookies, it's ours.

[Honorary Serb]

Of corse they don’t go to see the monuments as part of their classes.

But they might at least see pictures of the generals, which the fanatics want to remove also. And they—or their instructors—might want to go to the battlefields themselves.

[jmacusa]

“Lincolns tyranny’’? If Lincoln were the tyrant you Rebs claim he was he'd have hung Davis and Lee.Here's an idea for all you Johnny Reb wanna-bes. Why don't you all form an LLC, buy a big tract of land in Dixie somewhere and put all the Confederate statues in it. You can call it “Lee Land’’ or Confederatopia’’ or something.

[Chainmail]

Years ago, I was running with a fellow Marine and our halfway point was the Wall. We stopped for a few minutes and remembered some of the stories of some of the guys we knew, listed on the panels.

We were remembering a guy we knew as "Wimpy" a real character whose signature trick was to be able to suck in his breath and his pants would fall.

We were laughing about the memories of his exploits and a middle-aged woman came up to us and sternly told us that it was disrespectful for us to laugh while at our memorial.

I said "Ma'am, those were friends of our ours - and we think they'd be happy to know that they still could get us to laugh".

She stormed away, still angry and we continued our run.

[Uncle Sam 911]

Points taken.

[Bull Snipe]

I do not make a judgment on a historical fact. You were wrong on that point. Grant manumitted the only slave he owned three years before the war began. At the start of the war, Lee was still responsible for about 150 slaves of his father in law’s estate, and would take another 18 months to free them.

[Bull Snipe]

Lee did not own the slaves. They were part of the GWP Custis estate for which he was the executor. The Custis will required the slaves to be given their freedom once the estate’s legacies and debts were paid off but no later than five years after his death.

[Bull Snipe]

and for having accepted the surrender of three Confederate Armies.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

There was a series of comic books featuring THE HAUNTED TANK back in the better days. It would make the snowflakes foam at the mouth today.

[Texas Mulerider]

If Lincoln were the tyrant you Rebs claim he was he'd have hung Davis and Lee.Here's an idea for all you Johnny Reb wanna-bes.

Here's an idea for all you R.E. Lee haters. Learn proper English. Horses are hung. Men are hanged.

[Shadowstrike]

you’re stupidity is showing child, let the adults talk.

[impactplayer]

Then I guess that makes him a despicable creature - at least in your eyes.

[Bull Snipe]

not in the least. He was charged with administering the Custis estate, he carried out the duties of that responsibility. nothing more nothing less.

[jmacusa]

The only idiot here is you you moron. You’re side started a war and lost. Pound salt Reb.

[Thibodeaux]

The Black plague leaders behind the removals should be lynched or at least stood against the wall and shot.

[wgmalabama]

You need to be more polite in your discourse. Are you sure you belong here?