The 'big one' . . . Richmond's towering equestrian statue of Robert E Lee taken down (Page 4/7)
rinselberg SEP 10, 07:36 PM
"Opinion: Robert E. Lee was a stone-cold loser"
Dana Millbank, columnist for the Washington Post; September 10, 2021.
https://www.washingtonpost....hmond-trump-history/

In reference to that statement from Donald Trump the other day, when the big Richmond statue was removed from the public space:


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For a point-by-point grading of Trump’s "history paper", I checked in with Ty Seidule LINK, a retired U.S. Army brigadier general and military historian who is the former head of the U.S. Military Academy history department. Now at Hamilton College, he’s the author of “Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning With the Myth of the Lost Cause.” . . .

Lee chose the Confederacy because of his great love of Virginia? Seidule said Lee was one of eight U.S. Army colonels from Virginia at the time of secession in 1861. The other seven remained loyal to the United States — as did Virginian Winfield Scott, the U.S. Army’s commander, and 80 percent of all colonels from the South. “Lee’s the outlier,” Seidule said. That may be because at that level of Army officers “no one benefited from slavery more than he did.” Lee ran an enslaved-labor farm — a plantation — from 1857 to 1860. He wasn’t even a resident of Virginia for most of his prewar life; Alexandria, his hometown, was part of the District of Columbia until 1847. . . .
randye SEP 10, 08:31 PM
THE M2 STUART LIGHT TANK

NAMED AFTER CONFEDERATE GENERAL J.E.B. STUART

The M2 Stuart (and later M5 Stuart) tank was used extensively by American and British forces throughout WW2

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randye SEP 10, 08:34 PM
THE M3 LEE MEDIUM TANK

NAMED AFTER CONFEDERATE GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE

The M3 Lee medium tank was used extensively by American and British forces in WW2

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randye SEP 10, 08:40 PM
USS CHANCELLORSVILLE CG-62

COMMISSIONED 1989

She is named for the Battle of Chancellorsville of the Civil War, which was a victory for the Confederate States Army.

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randye SEP 10, 08:51 PM
USNS MAURY T-AGS-66

COMMISSIONED 2016

NAMED AFTER CONFEDERATE NAVY COMMANDER MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY
williegoat SEP 10, 09:16 PM
Dodge Charger - named after Robert E. Lee



Peggy Lee - Lee isn't even her real name, but I like the video.
randye SEP 10, 09:36 PM
williegoat SEP 10, 09:42 PM
He even mentions the city where I was born.

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sourmash SEP 10, 10:13 PM

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Originally posted by rinselberg:Lee chose the Confederacy because of his great love of Virginia? Seidule said Lee was one of eight U.S. Army colonels from Virginia at the time of secession in 1861. The other seven remained loyal to the United States — as did Virginian Winfield Scott, the U.S. Army’s commander, and 80 percent of all colonels from the South. “Lee’s the outlier,” Seidule said. That may be because at that level of Army officers “no one benefited from slavery more than he did.” Lee ran an enslaved-labor farm — a plantation — from 1857 to 1860. He wasn’t even a resident of Virginia for most of his prewar life; Alexandria, his hometown, was part of the District of Columbia until 1847. . . .




So he wasnt a sheep like the other officers? Yeah, we know that already. And we totally can't see through the bogus claim he wasnt a Virginian.

Lee accurately and honestly stated if he believed that the resistance was about slavery, then he wouldn't have supported it.

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rinselberg SEP 10, 10:22 PM
Really? The first polygraph or lie detector machines did not emerge until after 1900. I see 1906. And 1921. Online, of course.

He died in 1870.