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To: cowboyway

There are songs about something that happened in the north, but no songs that I've ever heard of, that celebrate love of the north.
Robert E. Lee is purported to have said "I love my country, but I love Virginia more"


166 posted on 11/17/2006 7:52:43 AM PST by Shimmer128 (Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.)
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To: Shimmer128
Robert E. Lee is purported to have said "I love my country, but I love Virginia more"

General Lee's reason for resigning his US Army commission was to defend Virginia and he didn't resign until Virginia seceded.

168 posted on 11/18/2006 5:30:00 AM PST by cowboyway (My heroes have always been Cowboys)
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