To answer the original question, I say yes.
There was a time in our nation's history when Lee was almost as honored and revered as was George Washington. When Lee died, he was admired by almost every person in the nation, regardless of race, creed, color or what side he/she sympathized with in the then-recent national conflict. Many men who'd fought against Lee with fury just five years prior now looked at him as a man worthy of honor & reverence; men who'd fought just as furiously under his command looked at him as having no rival in the history of our nation.
The current attitudes regarding great historical persons are so far beneath the example set by the best of those who lived before us. Today, in our modern culture, society has shifted away from honoring honorable men such as these, but a remnant of folks around our nation still recognize the valuable lessons the memory of these men can teach us... lessons in honor, duty, devotion, courage, patriotism, military service, sacrifice, living moral lives, and committed service to God.
I can only pray that I'll live to see the day when Robert E. Lee and others like him are held in high esteem once again and are sought after as examples of how we should live.