Posted on 01/17/2014 10:44:44 AM PST by DanMiller
“From deep conviction I simply say this: a nation of men of Lee’s caliber would be unconquerable in spirit and soul.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower”
Very nice!
YW and I always do.
I know my history.
God bless General Robert E. Lee.
“Actually its a small group of Freepers who like to come on every thread honoring General Robert E. Lee and try to smear him and the Southern heritage.”
My father remembers going to parades as a boy where the few remaining, gray-haird survivors of the war, both North and South, would ride by together to cheers and applause. My grandfather made it a point to teach him that they were all “our boys”.
It’s a shame, the things we have unlearned.
Thanks you. I just stole it.
Stole it myself, but *big-a-fied* it, LOL!
Salute!
Actually, the standards of the day called for an attacking force to outnumber the defenders 3-1 or 4-1, so at 2-1, usually defending his home territory, and with the benefit of interior lines, we would have to assume even a merely competent general could do well. On neutral and Northern soil, Lee’s failures are well known.
Destroying the economic base only became necessary because they were unable to destroy the Confederate armies, to a very considerable extent because Lee was too effective as a general.
“Actually its a small group of Freepers who like to come on every thread honoring General Robert E. Lee and try to smear him and the Southern heritage. “
But there’s one less these days. Thanks, JR.
Well said. I wouldn’t consider it treason if someone were to strongly, materially oppose this imposter presently occupying-and occupying is the operative word-the White House. General Lee was an honorable and admirable man. I don’t understand people who come onto a thread for people who want to honor General Lee, start snarking about him, and then accuse his admirers of “wanting to keep fighting the war”. We’re recognising an honorable man, not re-fighting the war,
I know who you mean, and I second the thanks. Now if some others would just leave us to honor our “sons of the South” without coming onto every such thread to “re-fight the war”.
Being that your FR Hompeage states "We hail from the great state of Pennsylvania" we may safely assume you are not one of the 'we' mentioned above.
You evidently fall into category of folks who judge history through today's politically correct moral and attitudes.
Yet if we took the same path and looked at you through the morals and attitudes of the time frame of General Lee... 
you'd be just another 'Damn Yankee' who wished to run our lives from Washington, D.C. with laws, rules and regulations that go against our traditions and lifestyle here in the South.
Gadzooks! Does that sound... 
familiar?
Your right. I don’t live my life in the 1860’s. Get with reality and worry about today. Yes history repeats itself but to completely dwell on getting you butt kicked year after year cannot be healthy.
I had an idiot (Obama supporter) member of my team at work ask me yesterday why the US Army has posts named after generals that were traitors (Lee, Bragg, Hood for example). I could barely keep myself from going Bender on him.
try to smear him and the Southern heritage.
Try? It was a despicable time for the United States and can’t believe you would want to celebrate the worst time in history. It was tragic and probably a time when America had the lowest morals ever.
"The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal affairs. It is only its external or confederate relations that are altered. To term this action of a Sovereign a 'rebellion' is a gross abuse of language."
"Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous people ."
"Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There was a time when none denied it. I hope the time may come again, when a better comprehension of the theory of our Government, and the inalienable rights of the people of the States, will prevent any one from denying that each State is a Sovereign, and thus may reclaim the grants which it has made to any agent whomsoever."
"The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena." Jefferson Davis, address to the Mississippi legislature - 16 years after the wars end.
"The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form."
President Jefferson Davis CSA
Well you certainly prove without doubt this old quote: "A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future."
And I fear IMHO you are still... 
a Damn Yankee in the worse possible way--
a Damn Yankee in the worse possible way—
I would certainly hope I was a damn Yankee in the 1860’s more than anytime in history that is for sure.
Why don’t you take your haughty a$$ to another thread and leave this one alone.
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