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America Remembers Robert E. Lee
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| 1/19/05
| Calvin E. Johnson Jr.
Posted on 01/18/2005 5:57:53 PM PST by wagglebee
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Comment #21 Removed by Moderator
To: Tax-chick
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posted on
01/18/2005 6:27:48 PM PST
by
annyokie
(If the shoe fits, put 'em both on!)
To: wagglebee
Reference #6 and #10 - my vote goes to Wagglebee.
Lee was one of very few who simply cannot be faulted,
another Washington, but for a failed and flawed cause;
a man deserving of his own holiday as much as ANY other.
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posted on
01/18/2005 6:27:50 PM PST
by
norton
(OK - he wasn't my favorite General but only bested by another outstanding commander)
To: GregGinn
He wasn't on the "wrong side" and neither am I !
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posted on
01/18/2005 6:28:43 PM PST
by
LadyPilgrim
(Sealed my pardon with His Blood, Hallelujah!!! What a Savior!!!)
To: GregGinn
When a tradition has lasted that long, it seems foolish to stop at that point. That kind of stuff annoys me. You sound like a child. Obey your tag line and let the adults talk.
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posted on
01/18/2005 6:28:45 PM PST
by
don-o
(Stop Freeploading. Do the right thing and become a Monthly Donor.)
To: GregGinn
Well look st it from another perspective: With the death of States-Rights, came a corrupt Federal System we are having problems with TODAY......
Comment #27 Removed by Moderator
To: annyokie; Constitution Day; stand watie
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Here's the little guy (on left) with his brother Thomas Jackson. Their grandfather got an autographed copy of the Jackson biography from James Robertson for Tom's first birthday. I'd like to get a biography of Lee for James ... suggestions, CD and SW? Extra points for a living author!
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posted on
01/18/2005 6:31:47 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
( The old woman who lives in the 15-passenger van.)
To: wagglebee
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I think Lee is the best example of a Southern gentleman and the embodiment of the Lost Cause.
But--bracing for flames here--the South didn't have to attack the enemy (as Lee twice tried and failed to do--at Antietam and Gettysburg). The Confederates needed only to hold out, as Washington's Continental Army did, until the Yankees grew tired of waging an increasingly unpopular and costly war. I do not doubt Lee's patriotism or honor--but I doubt the South's strategy, and since it was his, that makes me question his judgment.
Interesting site on the War of Northern Aggression: http://www.vw.vccs.edu/vwhansd/HIS269/Search.html
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posted on
01/18/2005 6:32:02 PM PST
by
LibertarianInExile
(NO BLOOD FOR CHOCOLATE! Get the UN-ignoring, unilateralist Frogs out of Ivory Coast!)
Comment #30 Removed by Moderator
To: wagglebee
I remember visiting Arlington House and feeling a great sense of sadness when the guide explained how Lee had to choose between his home and his duty to his home state.
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posted on
01/18/2005 6:32:19 PM PST
by
Ciexyz
(I use the term Blue Cities, not Blue States. PA is red except for Philly, Pgh & Erie)
To: Tax-chick
Douglas Southall Freeman wrote some of the finest biographies of General Lee.
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posted on
01/18/2005 6:33:16 PM PST
by
wagglebee
(Memo to sKerry: the only thing Bush F'ed up was your career)
To: Tax-chick
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posted on
01/18/2005 6:34:03 PM PST
by
annyokie
(If the shoe fits, put 'em both on!)
To: wagglebee
Good Book to read by Harry Turtledove: The Guns of the South.
To: Tax-chick
Happy birthday to your son!
My wife shares a birthday (January 21) with Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson.
To: Renfield
"I shall do it as soon as the azaleas bloom in the spring."
The whole post was like poetry. This Yankee salutes your heritage on this day.
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posted on
01/18/2005 6:35:25 PM PST
by
jjmcgo
To: wagglebee
In his final moments General Lee was reported to have made two seperate statements (Famous Last Words) the first one as I recall was :"Tell Hill he must come up" Anyone remember the second one.?
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posted on
01/18/2005 6:35:45 PM PST
by
Pompah
(The price of greatness is responsibility)
To: mojojockey
I've read a number of Turtledove's books on how America (USA and CSA) would have evolved had the South won the war, they're quite fascinating.
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posted on
01/18/2005 6:35:46 PM PST
by
wagglebee
(Memo to sKerry: the only thing Bush F'ed up was your career)
To: GregGinn
Happy Birthday, Lee. From you, up thread.
Crude and vulgar; use of the surname only, especially in speaking of the dead.
And yes, you are watched; fresh mouths who jump on a thread to trash a great man catch my eye.
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posted on
01/18/2005 6:35:52 PM PST
by
don-o
(Stop Freeploading. Do the right thing and become a Monthly Donor.)
To: GregGinn
Happy Birthday, Lee. Too bad you fought for the wrong side.Huh? You have to be kidding!
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posted on
01/18/2005 6:36:05 PM PST
by
CurlyBill
(The difference between Madeline Albright and Helen Thomas is a mere 15 years.)
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