To: BigReb555
Great men both!
Too bad there’s none like them in today’s America.
2 posted on
01/04/2013 3:20:57 PM PST by
IbJensen
(Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
To: IbJensen
Thank you for your comment...there are, indeed, no men of this stature in the political or military life of this country...both were recognized for outstanding leadership in the Mexican War and I am reminded of a question (paraphrased) the tyrant Abraham Lincoln made to General Winfield Scott when he asked him why he could not take Richmond when he had taken Mexico City in one day. General Scott replied that it was the same men who had taken Mexico City that were holding Richmond. Well-educated historians with no axe to grind recognize that Lee and Jackson were the true patriots who could no longer defend a country that had abandoned its constitution and rule of law.
15 posted on
01/04/2013 4:07:05 PM PST by
dunblak
To: IbJensen
16 posted on
01/04/2013 4:13:50 PM PST by
two23
To: IbJensen
Robert E. Lee graduated from West Point without a single demerit. I would be interested to see what other graduates managed that AND what became of them. From all accounts a very moral and religious man. I think in today's world Lee would have left the army before he made Captain.
He probably would be running a company like Chik A Fil A or Hobby Lobby.
Robert E. Lee: The Marble Man
17 posted on
01/04/2013 4:14:48 PM PST by
Tupelo
(Hunkered down & loading up)
To: IbJensen
I think if they would’ve been able to see what today’s America would like like, they would’ve fought even harder.
33 posted on
01/04/2013 5:39:08 PM PST by
Repeat Offender
(What good are conservative principles if we don't stand by them?)
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