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Post your favorite General Lee quote, story, or wisdom.

I'll start off with a classic (respectfully)

A farmer in his pickup truck in Alabama was driving across a
bridge when he noticed a man standing on the rail of the
bridge ready to jump to his death in the river below. The
farmer stopped his truck ran up to the man and said, "Hey
fellow, why are you doing this?"

The man replied, "Well, I have nothing to live for."

The Alabama farmer replied, "Well, think of your wife and
children!"

The jumper replied, "I have no wife or children."

The Alabama farmer then said, "Well, then think of your
mother and father!"

The man replied, "Mom and Dad passed on many years back."

The Alabama farmer then said, "Well, think of General
Robert E. Lee!"

The would-be jumper replied, "Who?"

With that the Alabama farmer said, "Well then go ahead,
jump!"

[TomServo]

Thanks for the ping, Stainless. Happy Birthday General Lee!

[Bedford Forrest]

"With that the Alabama farmer said, "Well then go ahead, jump!"

Most Excellent.

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I have met many of the great men of my time, but Lee alone impressed me with the feeling that I was in the presence of a man who was cast in a grander mold and made of different and finer metal than all other men. He was a God among men. He is stamped upon my memory as a being apart and superior to all others in every way--a man with whom none I ever knew, and very few of whom I have read, were worthy to be classed. He was a Greek God in spirit, tone, manner and eloquence, the closest thing to Christ to have trod the earth. -- Garnet, Viscount Wolseley

This should win the day's prize for sycophancy, though it looks like a tough contest.

[STONEWALLS]

.....one of my g.grandfathers was at Appomaddox[sp?]...he was with I Company of the 23rd S.C. Inf......there were only 16 men left at the end and they were in very bad shape.....yet the thing he remembered until the day he died in 1932 was that he saw Lee there....just to actually have seen the man was a thing of great pride and inspiration to him.....I know this to be true because my grandfather told me so back in the 1950s and I never forgot it....

[agrandis]

Upon the death of his daughter while he was away:

The ties to earth are taken, one by one, by our Merciful God to turn our hearts to Him and to show us that the object of this life is to prepare for a better and brighter world. May we all be there united to praise and worship Him forever and ever!

[A2J]

Thank God for Robert E. Lee, a true Southern gentlemen.

[stand watie]

an oldie, but a goodie!

free dixie,sw

[one2many]

Deo Vindice! Here's one that you don't see often. It says much about the man:

"Distance does not lend enchantment to the old fellow's greatness I assure you. The nearer he comes, the higher he looms up. It is plain, simple, unaffected greatness. It is just as natural and easy for him to be great as it is for me to be ordinary, and there is probably less affectation about it." ---General John Bratton, CSA, commenting on Robert E. Lee in a letter to his wife in 1865.