This morning Ty is off to Camp Hale up in Leadville at 10,200 feet high! That’s pretty darn high in elevation. He returns tomorrow at 6 pm. Saturday he has a bat mitzvah. At 6 pm on Saturday we have a party at the Parker’s whose daughter Charlotte, is a friend of Jag’s from school last year. We’re going to try to go down Saturday to see my Mom who was moved from ICU yesterday to a regular room, yea! I was there when the doctor came in and updated us on her progress which is really good. In fact, he said he was surprised how quickly she bounced back. They also took the last two tubes out of her.
So we’re pretty busy as usual. We did go to Matsuhisa for dinner last night. Lots of shootings and murders in Denver, more than I remember. I’m really over all these bullshit manufactured protests funded by George Soros and the radical wing of the democratic party. Here’s a couple things to think about,
The history lesson for the day.
Robert E. Lee was married to George Washington’s granddaughter. He worked with Grant during the Mexican-American war and became a decorated war hero defending this country. He believed slavery was a great evil and his wife broke the law by teaching slaves to read and write. After the Civil War he worked with Andrew Johnson’s program of reconstruction. He became very popular with the northern states and the barracks at West Point were named in his honor in 1962. He was a great man who served this country his entire life in some form or other. His memorial is now being called a blight. No American military veteran should be treated as such. People keep yelling, “You can’t change history.” Sadly you can. This is no better than book burnings. ISIS tried rewriting history by destroying historical artifacts. Is that really who we want to emulate?
As they tear down this “blight” keep these few historical facts in your mind. No military veteran and highly decorated war hero should ever be treated with such disrespect. This is not Iraq and Lee’s images are not statues of Saddam.
IN ADDITION: Lee was also very torn about the prospect of the South leaving the Union. His wife’s grandfather George Washington was a huge influence on him. He believed that ultimately, states’ rights trumped the federal government, since the intent of the Founding Fathers was to limit the powers of the federal government with the Constitution, leaving to the States all powers not specifically delegated to the federal government, and thus Lee chose to lead the Southern army. His estate, Arlington, near Washington, DC, was his home and while away fighting the war, the federal government occupied the estate and demanded that Lee himself pay his taxes of $92.07 in person. He sent his wife but the money was not accepted from a woman. When he could not pay the taxes in person, the government began burying dead Union soldiers on his land. The government is still burying people there today in the shadow of Arlington House, also named the Robert E. Lee Memorial. The estate is now called Arlington National Cemetery. DO THEY WANT TO TEAR THAT UP ALSO??
In one more interesting twist, in 1882 the US Supreme Court returned the property to the Lee family, ruling that it had been unjustly confiscated; however, Lee’s son deeded it back to the federal government so that war dead could continue to be honored there.
Think any of these radical leftist antifa paid protesters know or care about this? I doubt it. Then there’s George Orwell’s 1984 which was actually written in 1949, seems he was spot on. Time to stop this crap now, Have a great day and God Bless.
