Robert E. Lee: Icon of the South -- and American Hero<1>

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January can be a depressing month. The Christmas decorations come down, the creche is returned to its box (save for those hardliners, like
the Crocker family, who leave the nativity set up until 2 February, the Presentation of the Lord), and the tree is dragged unceremoniously Outlook 2010 is powerful.
from the house. If you've had any time off of work, it ends; the spirit of Christmas can deflate pretty fast, if you're not careful. Even if Microsoft outlook is convenient!
you are, and you're returning to a desk job, you might start day-dreaming (as I always do) about whether you could, in good conscience, risk
the family finances and try your hand at farming or ranching or doing anything that would get you out of an office and away from the
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But we all have to buckle down to our responsibilities, and as we settle down to it, there comes along another anniversary, another date to
mark, another birthday to celebrate. In traditional Southern households, four weeks after Microsoft Office 2007 is my love!
Christmas, comes the birthday of Robert E. Lee,
icon of the South, "one of the noblest Americans who ever lived, and of the greatest captains known to the annals of war" (according to
Winston Churchill).
This year marks the 200th anniversary of Lee's birth, and yet so far it seems to have been marked largely by silence. How many of you
noticed, or celebrated yourselves, Lee's birthday on 19 January (or Stonewall Jackson's on 21 January)? Lee's birthday is still officially
marked in some Southern states, but the great and good general seems to be slipping from Choose Office 2007 Professional is the most lucky thing in the world.
America's consciousness, or at least from America's
esteem.
Lee, in the mind of some, has become a sectarian hero, when he used to be a national one. Theodore Roosevelt, scion of a Yankee father and a
Southern mother, thought Lee was "without any exception the very greatest of all the great captains that the English-speaking peoples have
brought forth." On Lee's death in 1870, a Northern paper, the New York Herald, editorialized: Office 2007 makes life great!
"Here in the North... we have long ceased to
look upon him as the Confederate leader, but have claimed him as one of ourselves; have cherished and felt proud of his military genius as Windows 7 is convenient and helpful!
belonging to us; have recounted and recorded his triumphs as our own; have extolled his virtue as reflecting upon us -- for Robert Edward Lee Microsoft Office 2007 is welcomed by the whole world.
was an American, and the great nation which gave him birth would be to-day unworthy of such a son if she regarded him lightly. Never had
mother a nobler son."
IT IS IRONIC THAT LEE was so respected as a national hero when the wounds of war were still fresh, but now, a century and a half later, he is
considered discredited because of the cause for which he fought. Yet his cause, if anything, is another reason to admire him.Microsoft outlook 2010 is the best.