Can't we think of anyone better to remember? I understand Lee was one of America's greatest generals and that he was against slavery. The world was different, but come on people.
We have greater heroes that can be remembered. Truman had the courage to do one of the hardest things ANY President has been asked to do. Churchill isn't an American, but he's a true hero in any sense. And Ronald Reagan is the great American and greatest intellecutal we have ever had.
Let the civil war go people.
It's Lee's birthday, not Truman's or Churchill's.
Nope. Not gonna. It interests a lot of us; get used to it.
Or: "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain". The WBTS was about freedom, period. That the neo-revisionist would have it be about slavery alone is hubris. They are claiming it was about freedom for blacks. "The North have no more against slavery than the South have". Charles Dickens. These United States became an industrial power on the back of cheap labor and at the price of freedom. The contract that the government had with the people had failed by 1860 and the South knew it. Some still don't. It is such a shame.
Who forced you onto this thread?