Removing Confederate Generals portraits?

[Jim Garrett]

It's unfortunate that people try to dumb down the issues that propelled this country into a War Between the States so much that we recognize two of this country's greatest leaders as "the enemy". So much for reconstruction. Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. Jackson have inspired countless American heroes over the last 150 years, To consider them as "the enemy" does a great disservice to our history and the honor that these two great men so richly deserve.

As a young boy, George S. Patton would kneel at the foot of his bed every night and look up towards the headboard and pray. Just over his bed were the portraits of Lee and Jackson. It wasn't until he was much older that he realized they weren't pictures of God and Jesus. To a Southern family, driven out of Virginia by reconstruction to start a new life in California, these two heroes provided the inspiration to rebuild their lives. Without Lee, Jackson, Stuart and Mosby, we might not ever have known the name Patton. Without the name of Patton in our military lexicon, we might be speaking German today.

We cannot underestimate the value of these two great men.

nuff said.