Robert E. Lee: Icon of the South -- and American Hero

American Spectator ^ | 1/30/07 | HW Crocker III

[dljordan]

You're going to inflame the riff-raff again.

[Constitution Day]

BUMP!

[Zeroisanumber]

[dmz]

I THINK, HOWEVER, THAT THERE IS another, deeper reason why Lee makes modern America uncomfortable. It is his Christianity
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Nope. Not buying that for a minute.

[RayStacy]

Ooops! Is this subject one of those ongoing Freeper battles, like drug legalization? What, exactly, is the bone of contention?

[ghostrider]

It is not surpising that our current generations of politically corrected people don't know about Robert E Lee. The revisionist educators have painted him as a racist, and slammed the door of knowledge tightly shut.

[BnBlFlag]

There shouldn't be any bone of contention. The article is true and accurate.
BTW, my copy of "Southern Partisan" has not yet arrived. Where is it?

[SamuraiScot]

*I THINK, HOWEVER, THAT THERE IS another, deeper reason why Lee makes modern America uncomfortable. It is his Christianity* ______________ Nope. Not buying that for a minute.

I think Crocker is wrong on one point: It is Lee's manhood that makes modern liberals uncomfortable.

I was taught positive things about Lee even in my New York-metro public elementary school in the early 1960s. Sanely speaking, you can't fault the man. He was a great, magnanimous Christian gentlemen. Everyone said so at the time, and afterwards. RIP.

[RayStacy]

I received it in an e-mail, the bottom of which read something like "A modified version of this will appear in the next issue of SP, Mag."

[Non-Sequitur]

How many of you noticed, or celebrated yourselves, Lee's birthday on 19 January (or Stonewall Jackson's on 21 January)?

I'm saving my energy for the big one. William T. Sherman's birthday is on February 8th.

[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

Next to George Washington, Robert E Lee, is arguably the finest and noblest American! Also unreported by the politically correct historians, was the fact that Lee recognized the humanity of the newly freed blacks. This was most poignantly displayed one Sunday morning in 1865 in his church; when the priest called for the earnestly repentant to come forward to take communion, a black man from the back was the first to come kneel at the altar. The rest of the congregation held back, appalled, confused, etc. After a few moments of the awkward silence, an elder white man came forward and knelt down beside the man and took communion with him. Such was the nature of Lee's leadership, by example.

[Moose4]

There are constant wars here between folks (like me) who venerate Confederate heroes and fight against having Southern history revised into "CSA = evil," and those who have, ah, a little more Unionist view of things, shall we say. Some of those wars are good-natured discussions, some of them are big-time flames.

We run the gamut here, from some folks who would probably grab a rifle and secede tomorrow if they could, to the "all Confederates were traitors and should have been hanged" crowd on the other side. Most of us are somewhere in the middle. Me, I'm very pro-Southern, and flirted with membership in the League of the South a while back, but in the end I don't think it's viable any more.

Basically, just sit back, grab some popcorn, and watch the fun. :)

Stainless, good Marse Robert article ping for you.

}:-)4

[lovecraft]

Had any of that original colonies known that they would not be allowed to leave this Union, and made to stay by force, there would never have been a country. Unknown by the majority of our public school attendees, many in the South looked at that war as the Second American Revolution.

[Moose4]

Setting a few fires in his honor, NS? :)

}:-)4

[RayStacy]

Ahh, is that the way it is? I'm a Southern sympathizer, of course, but bear no grudges against the North, and can admire Grant and Lincoln. Sherman, though, now there was a serious POS, C*&%sucker.

[Leg Olam]

I don't think anyone would argue that R.E. Lee wasn't one of if not the the most compelling figure of the 19th century but I'm sure someone here will.

[Thrusher]

I'm saving my energy for the big one. William T. Sherman's birthday is on February 8th.

As much as it pains me, a die-hard southerner, to say this... I do wish ol' General Sherman were around today. I have a feeling that the Middle East would be a whole different place right now if they'd him run the WOT.

[MBB1984]

Lee was a wonderful man. He always was a dedicated man of valor. His service for the USA in the Mexican War was spectacular. I remember reading as a child of Lee hiding behind enemy lines while Mexican officers discussed battle plans, plans which Lee overheard and later reported to his superiors. Lee similarly served the Confederacy with unusual distinction, honor and valor. We need more men like Robert E. Lee.