To: Nachum
It certainly would have been over much sooner if only R.E. Lee had taken Lincoln’s offer. There wouldn’t be an Arlington National Cemetery today. At least not in the place where it is.
36 posted on
06/20/2008 8:32:30 AM PDT by
Past Your Eyes
(You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
To: Past Your Eyes
It certainly would have been over much sooner if only R.E. Lee had taken Lincolns offer. Tragic. But the Lord had other plans.
42 posted on
06/20/2008 8:34:30 AM PDT by
Huck
(The Teddy Roosevelt wannabe is better than Karl Marx wannabe.)
To: Past Your Eyes
And had Lee taken that offer, he’d have been a traitor to his home state and the South.
206 posted on
06/20/2008 10:50:49 AM PDT by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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