As a fellow native of the Commonwealth, I’ll back you up on how Lee is seen in Virginia...or was when history was more honestly taught in the schools, anyway. Hero worship on a level that would probably make the man rather uncomfortable, honestly.
Forty years ago there was a nuclear missile sub named after Robert E. Lee (SSBN-601) as well as one named for Stonewall Jackson (SSBN-634) and nobody gave that a second thought. Can you imagine that happening nowadays in today’s anti-Southern climate?
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It would never be allowed in today’s PC climate.
I know in WWII the 29th Infantry Division was named the Stonewall Division, loosely tracing it’s lineage back to Jacksons Army of the Shenandoah.
I don’t know if that would be allowed today.
The world has gone mad and I have, sorrowfully, lived to witness it.
...now we just name our ships for brain-dead anti-gun politicians whose attention-whore husbands (in violation of his own Oath to the Constitution) shepherd them around/exploit them for points with anti-gun totalitarian leftists.