Monday, October 12, 2020

A Man We Can Admire: Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.

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 Robert E. Lee | generallee

A friend recently asked me to name someone I truly admire. I wish the name of someone living today had come to mind, but none did. There is a man I greatly admire, but he has been dead 150 years: Robert E. Lee. He has had a strange career as a figure of admiration.Union soldiers had a high regard for his ability and character, and as the years went by, Northerners admired him and Southerners revered him. As late as 1975, Congress recognized what it called “his outstanding virtues.”

Now, the general is hated — more, I’m sure, than he ever was by the men he was trying to kill on the battlefield. Earlier this year, the New York Times called him and all Confederates “racist traitors.” The next month, this is what vandals did to the base of his monument in Richmond, Virginia. 

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4 comments:

  1. skybillOctober 12, 2020 at 11:33 PM

    Hi Brock...,
    Thx for posting!!! This is monumental!! Interestingly to note Dwight D. Eisenhower hailed from "TEXAS!!" (just a note)..
    His feelings toward the "South" were Noble!! During the mid 1950's the "Survivors of the War of Northern Aggression" dwindled to only 2 men!! One from the South and one from the North. In their last days they on occasion would visit each other... Upon the northerner's death.. the Southerner said,"I out lived them all!!" Shortly after, he to died...
    President Dwight David Eisenhower had him in his casket with him in his Confederate uniform on lie "in state" in the Rotunda of our Nation's Capital!!!!!! Full Tilt Boogie Pictures in "Black and White" Standard procedure for LIFE Magazine in those daze.. adorned LIFE Magazine!!
    ......I remember....

    Audentes, Fortuna, Ivat,
    skybill

    PS The "Flag" still flies

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  2. RebornOctober 13, 2020 at 2:24 PM

    I don't know how I missed this article/video as I pop in to Amren
    just about daily. The elegant Jared Taylor did an excellent
    job. I wish The Gray Ghost and The Rebel series would come on
    the TV along with the other older series I watch.
    Didn't know Eisenhower was a Confederate at heart either.
    Good to know.

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    1. Brock TownsendOctober 13, 2020 at 2:33 PM

      Thanks and did you read any of David Yeagley?

      https://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-real-racist-problem-behind-illegal.html

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