(April 15, 2024 at 12:16 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(April 15, 2024 at 12:05 pm)ShinyCrystals Wrote: I do wonder if he really wanted to defend the United States like he swore to? Doubtful, at least to me.
I don't. He graduated near the top of his West Point class. He served honorably for over three decades, including combat in Mexican-American War. The fact that he resigned his commission in order to fight for the Confederacy speaks to a feeling that the right to own another human being was more important to him than the honorable three decades' of service.
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Makes sense. Perfect sense in fact. Also, it is no surprise that Trump, another traitor, would talk about someone like Lee like that, when Lee was not all so great like how Trump isn’t.
