To: rogue yam; SWEETSUNNYSOUTH
Here’s one that ought to PO the Yankees out there....
Lee’s home is now the greatest and most hallowed shrine in ALL of the DC area...............
20 posted on
04/25/2007 10:54:22 AM PDT by
Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
Which is ironic.
Remember also. Lee was a major reason that the South didn’t rise again. He went on a speaking tour advocating reconciliation after the war, and was much loved by all.
25 posted on
04/25/2007 10:59:23 AM PDT by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
To: Red Badger
I heard that the yanks started using his home for a graveyard for soldiers even before the war was over. I hope I am wrong about that.
27 posted on
04/25/2007 11:03:03 AM PDT by
SWEETSUNNYSOUTH
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To: Red Badger
Lee’s home is now the greatest and most hallowed shrine in ALL of the DC area............... Only because they created a National Cemetary around it.
30 posted on
04/25/2007 11:04:19 AM PDT by
Non-Sequitur
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To: Red Badger
“Here’s one that ought to PO the Yankees out there....
Lee’s home is now the greatest and most hallowed shrine in ALL of the DC area...............”
Not me. He was an amazing man, one I would have been honored to have known if it was possible.
32 posted on
04/25/2007 11:05:37 AM PDT by
Badeye
(Stop begging Sally, I'm not coming back.)
To: Red Badger
Lee’s home is now the greatest and most hallowed shrine in ALL of the DC area............... What is really ironic about that is that Arlington was built on Lee's property out of spite, for the role he played n the civil war. Now, I can only think of a few more beautiful and austere places to be laid to rest, than amongst those gardens of stone.
40 posted on
04/25/2007 11:13:06 AM PDT by
Turbo Pig
(...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
To: Red Badger
Lee’s home is now the greatest and most hallowed shrine in ALL of the DC area............... No, it's actually his yard (inherited only a year or so before the war from his father-in-law) that is the most hallowed and only because of the heroes who rest beneath it.
58 posted on
04/25/2007 11:33:44 AM PDT by
Ditto
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To: Red Badger
I'm a Yankee. Why would that PO me? It was done as an insult...so that he could never live there again.
It was also 140 years ago.
In any case, Lee was no villain, but he was no hero either.
102 posted on
04/25/2007 12:22:07 PM PDT by
NucSubs
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