Happy Robert E Lee Day

The past is what we Americans call HISTORY. You sir, need to understand that history repeats itself and worth the lesson.

If you don't know the tremendous contributions that Robert E. Lee has bought to American military leadership and engineering....if it wasn't for Lee, there would be no COL-LOW-ROD-DOE...you sir should just STFU.

JMC wrote:

residenttroll wrote: Overheard at CU today,

Storeperson: Happy Robert E. Lee Day!
Student1: uh, who's Robert E. Lee? It's MLK Day.
Storeperson: You know, General Lee.
Student1: Oh yea, that was a hot car in the movie. What's that gotta do with Harvey Milk Day?

Doesn't the fact that he was defending slavery matter? Rommel was a great general defending evil too. Stupid topic!

Lee did not fight for slavery and the issue of slavery was not the cause of the civil war.... He was considered by many, including Winston Churchill and Theodore Roosevelt to be a great man. Get your facts straight.

By the way, Lee kicked Grant @#$ so many times it's not even funny.

Lee supported civil rights for all, as well as a system of free public schools for blacks, but dissented regarding black suffrage

285 Bound wrote:

residenttroll wrote: By the way, Lee kicked Grant @#$ so many times it's not even funny.

Who surrendered? Dipsh**

Who's asking? Dumb@#$?

285 Bound wrote:

residenttroll wrote: By the way, Lee kicked Grant @#$ so many times it's not even funny.

Who surrendered? Dipsh**

Who's asking? Dumb@#$?

Funny....

On January 30, 1975, Senate Joint Resolution 23, A joint resolution to restore posthumously full rights of citizenship to General R. E. Lee was introduced into the Senate by Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr. (I-VA). The resolution was to restore the U.S. citizenship to Robert E. Lee effective June 13, 1865. This resolution was the result of a 5 year campaign to posthumously restore Robert E. Lee's U.S. citizenship.

Having lived in the south....Georgia....for many years, it is quite clear that the south won the War Between the States, and textbooks are actually detailing a myth.....Lee won every battle, Grant was defeated and Sherman, well he was just fooling around in the South and accomplished little but to set a few fires. FYI....the battle still rages there, and the South has never admitted defeat.

The birthday of Robert E. Lee is celebrated or commemorated in:
The state of Virginia as part of Lee-Jackson Day, which was separated from the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday there in 2001. The King holiday falls on the third Monday in January while the Lee-Jackson Day holiday is celebrated on the Friday preceding it.
The state of Texas celebrates, as part of Confederate Heroes Day on January 19, Lee's actual birthday.
The states of Alabama, Arkansas, and Mississippi on the third Monday in January, along with Martin Luther King, Jr.
The state of Georgia on the day after Thanksgiving.
The state of Florida, as a legal holiday and public holiday, on January 19.[101]

archer wrote: Having lived in the south....Georgia....for many years, it is quite clear that the south won the War Between the States, and textbooks are actually detailing a myth.....Lee won every battle, Grant was defeated and Sherman, well he was just fooling around in the South and accomplished little but to set a few fires. FYI....the battle still rages there, and the South has never admitted defeat.

That's about the dumbest post you have ever made. I grew up in North Carolina. History books clearly discussed the causes of the civil war, the winners and losers of civil war, and we could actually visit the scared and hallowed grounds. Go blow some more coke and then come back in the AM.

Sherman and his troops were terrorist.

Sherman and his troops committed crimes against humanity. In another era, war crime trials would have taken place.