Happy Robert E Lee's Birthday!

[Jerry D]

For all ya' southerns who used to get today off for Marse Robert E Lee Birthday Have a Happy Robert E. Lee / Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson Day BTW here in GA Robert E. Lee's Birthday will be observed Friday, November 24? when did they decide to move Robert E Lee's Birthday(Jan19th) to the day after Thanksgiving? I guess so all the State Workers could get a 4 day weekend at Taxpayer expense and not have to use a vacation day for that Friday. http://www.gms.state.ga.us/employee/calenhol.asp

BTW here in Georgia we still observe George Washington's Birthday also But it will be observed Tuesday, December 26 instead of his Birthday on February 22nd...

[Packo]

My cat, J.E.B. STEWART, and I are celebrating. We have the day off for Lee's birthday.

J.E.B Packo

[b3196]

Pack
I must have one of them northern calanders
Bob K

[Gimpy]

I'm flyin the "STARS & BARS" in mah front yard today!

Mah "yankee.....snowbird" neighbors figured out a couple a years ago NOT to mess with that crazy 'psyco' Vietnam Vet frum "Jawga" when he's in his 'REBEL' mode!

LONG LIVE THE MEMORY OF GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE!

[1CAVCCO15MED]

Robert E Lee was not just a Southern hero but also an American hero, especially after the Civil War. My old college fraternity was founded in his honor, Kappa Alpha Order. Deux Et Les Dames!

[Jerry D]

Thanks Doc, you are very correct and Not a lot of people know that During the Mexican-American war (Major?) Lee served on the staffs of John Wool and Winfield Scott. Particularly distinguishing himself scouting for and guiding troops, he won three brevets and was slightly wounded at Chapultepec.Later Col. Robert E Lee was in Charge of capturing John Brown after he robbed and killed folks. In 1859 John Brown led a party of 21 men in a successful attack on the federal armory at Harper's Ferry. Brown hoped that his action would encourage slaves to join his rebellion, enabling him to form an emancipation army. Two days later the armory was stormed by Robert E. Lee and a company of marines. Brown and six men barricaded themselves in an engine-house, and continued to fight until Brown was seriously wounded and two of his sons had been killed.

John Brown was tried and convicted of insurrection, treason and murder. He was executed on 2nd December, 1859. Six other men involved in the raid were also hanged. The song, John Brown's Body, commemorating the Harper's Ferry raid, was a highly popular marching song with Republican soldiers during the American Civil War. It always amazed me that Union Soldiers during the Civil War would sing a song praising a man that killed so many Union Soldiers while trying to Free Slaves through Violence? John Brown in todays terms would be comparable to Tim McVie blowing up the federal Building in OK. Lee's enormous wartime prestige, both in the North and South, and the devotion inspired by his unconscious symbolism of the "Lost Cause" made his a legendary figure even before his death. He died on October 12 1870, of heart disease which had plagued him since the spring of 1863, at Lexington, Va. and is buried there

[MORTARDUDE]

"It is well that war is so terrible -- lest we should grow too fond of it."

General Robert E. Lee ( Battle of Fredricksburg, 13 December 1862 )

[BLUEHAWK]

Happy brithday, Marse Robert... ya done yer best.