Posted on 01/17/2015 2:31:16 PM PST by BigReb555
During Robert E. Lee's 100th birthday in 1907, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., a former Union Commander and grandson of US President John Quincy Adams, spoke in tribute to Robert E. Lee at Washington and Lee College's Lee Chapel in Lexington, Virginia. His speech was printed in both Northern and Southern newspapers and is said to had lifted Lee to a renewed respect among the American people.
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I don’t like seeing FReepers going after each other like cats and dogs... please, be kind to one another... for goodness sake if anything.
Please be kind to each other.
I understand where you’re coming from ... I’m simply answering those that don’t know the rules of debate and go for the slandering when they haven’t any idea of what they’re talking about ... they have to come back with invectives ... I should simply let them vent and not bother to answer. But then, they would not sleep easy.
Be nice... she’s legit.
“Lee was a man who betrayed his oath as a graduate of West Point to defend and protect the Constitution of the United States, Lee not only took up arms against his country...”
Apparently the US Government doesn’t fully agree with the above statement since they named a major US fort in honor of Lee (from 1917 to present) and his image is on five US postage stamps (issued in 1937, 1949, 1954, 1970 & 1995, .
The reason people cannot or will not be kind to each other is because for one thing it has not been that long since the civil War. My mother’s great uncle fought in the civil War and she actually knew and spoke with him as a child. We have photos. There is still a living person whose father met and spoke with Abraham Lincoln.
There are still a couple of Civil War widows getting veterans’ benefits and about 17 children of Civil War Vets still around. For another thing Sherman’s March and the yankee reconstruction/retribution on the South was so harsh that we still hate the North.
That is why there is such vitriol on the FR threads whenever Robert E Lee or any other Confederate leader is mentioned in a thread.
Currently our country is in another similar cultural war and if something drastic does not happen we will see the regional division happening again.
So no people are not going to be kind to each other about this.
I sleep easy every night knowing who my God is and who my nation is and who my southern ancestors were. Do GA a favor don’t move here and then vote to turn it into the same Chithole you left in CA.
I’m not from CA ... I’m from Brooklyn NYC and live in WA state.
So?
PS ... personally speaking ... I think it best to know who you answer to before being so vindictive ... just saying ...
Well, Our government has loved traitors, since it’s inception and establishment. Do you feel stating the obvious is your niche, or just your obedience to such inanity?
“I’m not from CA ... I’m from Brooklyn NYC and live in WA state.”
OMG!!! Well bless your heart. :-)
That did not answer the question.
Guess then I’m a Brooklyn-American .... :)
Talk to the other guy, I wasn’t picking a fight about a war 150 years ago.
I am not picking a fight about anything here.
talk to the guy I was posting to.
Don’t really want to get too deep into this, but how was Eisenhower’s decision to carpet bomb Normandy to facilitate the breakout much different than Sherman’s march to the sea. Everything was destroyed along the path.
It all has to do with the perspective of the victor and the vanquished.
I agree in the respect that Rommel was a great General. I am no fan of the Nazis, but that guy had a lot of things in common with Lee in terms of his tactics.
Dresden.
Those who do not remember history, are condemned to make appallingly stupid comments about it on FR threads, as we can easily see by looking about us. LOL! :)
I'll be raising a glass to the memory of Marse Robert on Monday.
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