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Virginia

IronLionZion

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Reply to Yonnie3 (Original post)

Thu Oct 26, 2023, 04:46 PM

Oct 2023

Here in Arlington they renamed Lee highway to Langston Blvd. And of course his plantation is Arlington National Cemetery. I never saw any point in honoring a person who lost a civil war, and was a pretty bad plantation owner who had a slave revolt and several slaves escaped.

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Charlottesville's Lee statue meets its end, in a 2,250-degree furnace [View all] Yonnie3 Oct 2023 OP

Good IronLionZion Oct 2023 #1

Robert E. Lee would approve of this Jilly_in_VA Oct 2023 #2

and a word from our sponsor Yonnie3 Oct 2023 #3