Robert E. Lee… Unacknowledged Nobility In Our Midst
By JUDE DOUGHERTY As statues, monuments, and memorials tumble in Austin, Baltimore, Charlottesville, Durham, and other parts of the country, it may be fruitful to examine what the fuss is all about. The public has been led to believe that the men for whom those monuments or plaques have been erected were bad men, who allegedly owned slaves or supported slavery as an institution. Often the truth is just the opposite, or complicated beyond common acknowledgment. We witness the ignorant and the barbarous, often with vicious intent, vandalizing public displays that have existed for decades without disturbance. Pretended moral offense by the supposedly aggrieved is not self-validating. If one studied the events that led to the conflict between North and…Continue Reading