Putting a phone on speaker in a restaurant surrenders any expectation of privacy.
WTF is wrong with Robert E. Lee’s name anyway? Arlington is on his old farm. He was a brilliant general and an entirely decent human being.
His brilliance as a general is based on his record of killing men wearing the uniform of the United States and fighting under the Stars and Stripes.
“His brilliance as a general is based on his record of killing men wearing the uniform of the United States and fighting under the Stars and Stripes.“
Bullshit.
It all depends on who wins the war. The losing side are called “rebels” or “traitors” - but if they had won, they would be called “patriots”, “revolutionaries“ or “Founding Fathers”.
What do you think the American revolutionaries were called by the British? What would they still be called today if they had lost and we were still British subjects? Murderous Traitors.
My great grandfather was a Confederate Captain and after the war he moved to PA with his family and was a beloved and highly respected pillar of the community for 50 years until his death at the age of 95. Nobody ever called him a traitor or accused him of defending slavery.
He was honored as a war veteran alongside the Union veterans in Memorial Day parades and after his death, his grave was decorated with a confederate flag to honor him - right here in Pennsylvania!
And he was not the only one. Memorial Day was established in 1868 for that very purpose, and war veterans of the North and South were honored side by side to heal the nation and remind future generations that we have more in common than we have that sets us apart.
This recent attempt to stir racial divisions over the Civil war after 150 years of healing is a tragic manifestation of Leftist race-baiting and hate-mongering. What a shame that the people who fought were able to reconcile, and all that healing and mutual respect is being squandered for political advantage.
I do not understand why Conservatives allow the Left to recast American history as being founded on systemic racism. That is a lie. Are we really this gullible?
Isn’t it obvious who benefits from this racial division?
Yet every time the subject of the Civil War comes up, certain FReepers pile on with Southern-bashing.
The veterans of that war - on BOTH sides - must be rolling in their graves...
You mean, during the Mexican War and at Harper’s Ferry, he turned on his own troops? His brilliance as a general was already established long before the Civil War.
The Union wanted him as a general, and the Confederacy also wanted him. He ended up throwing in with the Confederacy, because he felt greater loyalty to his native Virginia. But regardless, his brilliance as a general is based on the fact that he won battles, sometimes with bloodshed and sometimes with bluff and bravado. Ironically, he suffered a resounding defeat at Gettysburg against General Meade, who was anything but brilliant.