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Here we go - Tulsa public schools to start review of school names..
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<blockquote data-quote="donner" data-source="post: 3021838" data-attributes="member: 277"><p>I wonder if Lee would have wanted his name on schools? He didn't want confederate monuments, so he might not have felt like he should be honored, either. </p><p></p><p>“I think it wiser,” the retired military leader wrote about a proposed Gettysburg memorial in 1869, “…not to keep open the sores of war but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, to commit to oblivion the feelings engendered.”</p><p></p><p>and </p><p></p><p>“As regards the erection of such a monument as is contemplated,” <a href="http://leefamilyarchive.org/papers/letters/transcripts-UVA/v076.html" target="_blank">Lee wrote of an 1866 proposal,</a> “my conviction is, that however grateful it would be to the feelings of the South, the attempt in the present condition of the Country, would have the effect of retarding, instead of accelerating its accomplishment; [and] of continuing, if not adding to, the difficulties under which the Southern people labour.”</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/robert-e-lee-opposed-confederate-monuments/" target="_blank">http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/robert-e-lee-opposed-confederate-monuments/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donner, post: 3021838, member: 277"] I wonder if Lee would have wanted his name on schools? He didn't want confederate monuments, so he might not have felt like he should be honored, either. “I think it wiser,” the retired military leader wrote about a proposed Gettysburg memorial in 1869, “…not to keep open the sores of war but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, to commit to oblivion the feelings engendered.” and “As regards the erection of such a monument as is contemplated,” [URL='http://leefamilyarchive.org/papers/letters/transcripts-UVA/v076.html']Lee wrote of an 1866 proposal,[/URL] “my conviction is, that however grateful it would be to the feelings of the South, the attempt in the present condition of the Country, would have the effect of retarding, instead of accelerating its accomplishment; [and] of continuing, if not adding to, the difficulties under which the Southern people labour.” [URL]http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/robert-e-lee-opposed-confederate-monuments/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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