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Is the History Channel Really Going to Run Neo-Confederate Ads?

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Dark_Falcon10/16/2010 10:57:17 am PDT

re: #66 HappyWarrior

Yeah, I don’t hate the man and I do understand his brilliance but I don’t get why we have to celebrate him. Benedict Arnold was a great general before he switched to the British in the revolution and I doubt any state celebrates him.

It has to do as well with the fact that Lee is not seen to have turned on the United States. He saw his primary loyalty to the state of Virginia, not to the nation as a whole. Many others had similar feelings at the time.