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  • Symposium to honor Lee, villain or 'the noblest ever' ?

    04/25/2007 10:11:37 AM PDT · by Non-Sequitur · 326 replies · 4,155+ views
    Washington Times ^ | April 25, 2007 | Robert Stacy McCain
    Winston Churchill called him "one of the noblest Americans who ever lived," and Theodore Roosevelt called him "the very greatest of all the great captains that the English-speaking peoples have brought forth." But has political correctness turned Robert E. Lee into a villain? That will be the question explored by six historians this weekend at a symposium commemorating the bicentennial of the Confederate commander's birth. "We were afraid that Lee would not receive the honors he should get because of the prevailing political correctness," says Brag Bowling, a Richmond resident who helped organize Saturday's event at the Key Bridge Marriott...