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To: OIFVeteran; jdsteel; eartick; Kalamata; Who is John Galt?; DiogenesLamp; central_va; BroJoeK; ...
“Confederate ideology was just Nazism lite.”

That is an interesting comment.

Here's what one admirer of Confederate leadership wrote:

Dear Dr. Scott:

Respecting your August 1 inquiry calling attention to my often expressed admiration for General Robert E. Lee, I would say, first, that we need to understand that at the time of the War between the States the issue of secession had remained unresolved for more than 70 years. Men of probity, character, public standing and unquestioned loyalty, both North and South, had disagreed over this issue as a matter of principle from the day our Constitution was adopted.

General Robert E. Lee was, in my estimation, one of the supremely gifted men produced by our Nation. He believed unswervingly in the Constitutional validity of his cause which until 1865 was still an arguable question in America; he was a poised and inspiring leader, true to the high trust reposed in him by millions of his fellow citizens; he was thoughtful yet demanding of his officers and men, forbearing with captured enemies but ingenious, unrelenting and personally courageous in battle, and never disheartened by a reverse or obstacle. Through all his many trials, he remained selfless almost to a fault and unfailing in his faith in God. Taken altogether, he was noble as a leader and as a man, and unsullied as I read the pages of our history.
From deep conviction, I simply say this: a nation of men of Lee’s calibre would be unconquerable in spirit and soul.

Indeed, to the degree that present-day American youth will strive to emulate his rare qualities, including his devotion to this land as revealed in his painstaking efforts to help heal the Nation’s wounds once the bitter struggle was over, we, in our own time of danger in a divided world, will be strengthened and our love of freedom sustained.

Such are the reasons that I proudly display the picture of this great American on my office wall.

Sincerely,

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Your unambiguous claim that General Eisenhower was an admirer of “Nazism lite” is unfortunate, but perhaps inevitable because of what people see today on the electric television and are taught in government schools.

I'm not saying that you deliberately maligned General Eisenhower. I do think you probably read something on the board that upset you emotionally and, rather than brandish an M-4 carbine, you lashed out in anger.

Isn't that what happened?

676 posted on 01/14/2020 10:52:29 AM PST by jeffersondem
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To: jeffersondem

Who knows what these mouth foaming knuckle dragging state-ist thugs really think. I’ll bet it’s very dark in there.


677 posted on 01/14/2020 11:00:37 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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