Lee Thrift Shop Prize

[Enoch L. Cade]

Hello all, picked up the following at a thrift store in SC. Hard to read the script, but it states that the picture was sold to raise money for General Lee's memorial at Washington & Lee College chapel (is that "school" still planning to brick up Lee Chapel to protect the delicate sensitivities of the Americans?)

Amusingly, when I was studying an American (Indian-American) gent approached and said, "Ooh that's a very picture of Grant." I pointed out that it was General Lee, at which he said he hoped that I planned to destroy the picture of that bad racist man. America! Truly an exceptional nation.

 

[Fairfield]

What a great find--its quite amazing what people unload at thrift shops and yard sales.

That man was silly: if we destroy all reminders of what that we disagree with, we are shortchanging the next generation which has the right to make those decisions on their own.

 

[R. Porter]

What a great find--its quite amazing what people unload at thrift shops and yard sales.

That man was silly: if we destroy all reminders of what that we disagree with, we are shortchanging the next generation which has the right to make those decisions on their own.

We also destroy where we have been and where we shouldn't return. People will live in blissful ignorance thinking it can't happen here if they don't know that it has already happened here before. And all those sayings that freedom comes at a price and all those stories of those who came before us and the sacrifices they made for what they believed in, whether right or wrong, will fall on deaf, unappreciative ears. Growth, maturity and wisdom do not come without a certain amount of mistakes, pain and suffering.

 

[Nathan Stuart]

Amusingly, when I was studying an American (Indian-American) gent approached and said, "Ooh that's a very picture of Grant." I pointed out that it was General Lee, at which he said he hoped that I planned to destroy the picture of that bad racist man.

It never surprises that some people are ignorant of history and unthinkingly let their own biases, prejudices and bigotries show so openly. But then there will always be some elements of society who are narrow-minded.

In saying this, everyone is entitled to express their own opinions, provided it's not unlawful or otherwise harmful in some tangible way. At least the gentleman quoted here was merely expressing his hope, and not his direction, for you to destroy the picture.

We can hope to make the world a better place, based on what we learn from our knowledge of the past, but not by ridiculing or condemning it.

 

[Story]

Hello all, picked up the following at a thrift store in SC. Hard to read the script, but it states that the picture was sold to raise money for General Lee's memorial at Washington & Lee College chapel (is that "school" still planning to brick up Lee Chapel to protect the delicate sensitivities of the Americans?)

Amusingly, when I was studying an American (Indian-American) gent approached and said, "Ooh that's a very picture of Grant." I pointed out that it was General Lee, at which he said he hoped that I planned to destroy the picture of that bad racist man. America! Truly an exceptional nation.

1. Nice find, glad it found a home where it's appreciated.

2. Sounds like your interloper might have slept through one or more of his citizenship classes.

 

[Enoch L. Cade]

We also destroy where we have been and where we shouldn't return. People will live in blissful ignorance thinking it can't happen here if they don't know that it has already happened here before. And all those sayings that freedom comes at a price and all those stories of those who came before us and the sacrifices they made for what they believed in, whether right or wrong, will fall on deaf, unappreciative ears. Growth, maturity and wisdom do not come without a certain amount of mistakes, pain and suffering.

Yeah… to be fair, I couldn't get mad at the dude. He is just repeating what he heard or was told — maybe in his citizenship class? — or read on Twatter.

 

[7thWisconsin]

Yeah - I´m afraid he was a little out of his depth.

 

[Joe Whitworth]

Glad you saved that treasure from the hands of some fool.

 

[Fairfield]

It never surprises that some people are ignorant of history

I must tell you what happened over the weekend. A friend from Connecticut (a genealogist as well as one who is knowledgeable about New England Shaker0 was up to Maine to attend a function elsewhere in this state; she came here for a visit. We got on to the topic of the ACW in Maine because she was staying in an area that prides it self on its connections to the War. I said "Well, you are not far from Brunswick which was the home of Joshua Chamberlain"

To which she replied: "Who was Joshua Chamberlain?"

 

[Cato3rd]

I said "Well, you are not far from Brunswick which was the home of Joshua Chamberlain"

The basketball player?

 

[SWS]

The future of the American nation and her memory is indeed a sorrowful thought.

"Up the valley of the James the two riders climbed, past mountain cabins and occasional prosperous homes. Out where the road was the steepest, they came upon a group of dirty-faced youngsters at play. The General spoke to them — he never passed children without doing so — and asked jestingly if they did not think some water would help their countenances. The children gaped and ran away. Presently the riders made a turn in the winding road, and down from a cabin, now visible for the first time, trooped the same youngsters, in clean aprons, their faces hurriedly but surely washed, and their hair combed. 'We know you are General Lee,' cried one of the group. 'We have got your picture.' Their toilet [grooming] was in his honor." - R.E. Lee, Freeman, Volume III, Ch. XVIII, pg. 320

 

[7thWisconsin]

Sic transit gloria mundi. A few years ago, I asked my children to picture what they imagined a ¨Dr. Lee¨ would look like. They all agreed he would be Asian. Elderly white southerner? Nope - never occurred to them. In all fairness, though, I can probably lista dozen or more people who were heroes to the American public in their own day who are now known and esteemed by a niche audience.

 

[Story]

To which she replied: "Who was Joshua Chamberlain?"

Should have replied "Jeff Daniels", she'd have got it then.

 

[Story]

The future of the American nation and her memory is indeed a sorrowful thought.

"Up the valley of the James the two riders climbed, past mountain cabins and occasional prosperous homes. Out where the road was the steepest, they came upon a group of dirty-faced youngsters at play. The General spoke to them — he never passed children without doing so — and asked jestingly if they did not think some water would help their countenances. The children gaped and ran away. Presently the riders made a turn in the winding road, and down from a cabin, now visible for the first time, trooped the same youngsters, in clean aprons, their faces hurriedly but surely washed, and their hair combed. 'We know you are General Lee,' cried one of the group. 'We have got your picture.' Their toilet [grooming] was in his honor." - R.E. Lee, Freeman, Volume III, Ch. XVIII, pg. 320

 

[History36]

A lot of those folks forget that Lee: 1.) Was a great American hero long 'before' the Civil War, 2.) And, he became an American citizen once again, albeit official in the 1970s. But, it only proves that those folks forget the importance of 'perspectives' of Lee's era - they look at it strictly from their limited 21rst limited views vs. those of the 19th century. That's being narrow-minded, in my opinion....

 

[Trooper "D"]

Hello all, picked up the following at a thrift store in SC. Hard to read the script, but it states that the picture was sold to raise money for General Lee's memorial at Washington & Lee College chapel (is that "school" still planning to brick up Lee Chapel to protect the delicate sensitivities of the Americans?)

Amusingly, when I was studying an American (Indian-American) gent approached and said, "Ooh that's a very picture of Grant." I pointed out that it was General Lee, at which he said he hoped that I planned to destroy the picture of that bad racist man. America! Truly an exceptional nation.

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People are idiots.

 

[Trooper "D"]

Jerry Garcia on peddle steel guitar!

 

[Fairfield]

People are idiots.

Some people are, indeed, pretty dense. But there are some who are unexpectedly insightful. I guess that it balances

 

[Story]

they look at it strictly from their limited 21rst limited views vs. those of the 19th century.

Unfortunately, this is a bane on some CWT folks as well (and not just to do with issues on the Confederacy, but frequently moral compass related).

 

[Story]

People are idiots.

Articulated like a true 19 series.

Clear & Elevate, award yourself one (1) beer.​