I don’t revere Robert E. Lee and I’ve the right to say so. Whomever has their feelings bruised,too bad. I’m not going to lose sleep over it. And again, this has NOTHING to do with Obama and why do you keep dragging that into this? And lastly, for Heavens sake, enough of your pompous affectations of being affronted , please.
Of course, you have a right to say so. What is puzzling is why you are so full of hate that you feel a need to not only say so, but to insult those who disagree with you, on a thread intended to honor his memory.
this has NOTHING to do with Obama and why do you keep dragging that into this?
The point, ignored by you in your need to slander other people's heroes, is that by keeping this nasty banter going, you are distracting others from the campaign to replace Obama. Apparently insulting an American hero who died 142 years ago, is more important to you than defeating Obama.
for Heavens sake, enough of your pompous affectations of being affronted , please.
It is no affectation. I have honored Robert E. Lee, his father & uncle--both closely associated with the immortal Washington & American as well as Virginia independence-- since I was a schoolboy in Cincinnati. If I were not focused on defeating Obama, I would really let you have it. Your rants here, are not defensible. But enough is enough.
The same goes for you ally, who accuses one of the noblest men who ever came out of West Point, of treason. Why? Apparently because he did not betray the State, whose independence--recognized as among the sovereign nations of the World in the Treaty of Paris--was won in a considerable measure by the heroism of his own father & uncle. For Lee not to have served Virginia would have been treason, under any reasonable interpretation of the "Law Of Nations," as understood by the Founding Fathers.
If either of you "gentlemen," want to renew this, after the election--bring it on.
William Flax
P.S. Note how World War II hero, Douglas MacArthur--like Lee a former commandant of West Point--and a General whose father served the North on the Northern side in the War, you have been discussing--saw the Confederates in his classic farewell to West Point: Duty, Honor, Country. Don't think that you will find very many genuine American heroes, who saw this any differently.