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 Posted: Thu Jan 6th, 2011 08:56 pm
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Mana: 
 That depends on who this was aimed at. My thoughts when I posted my comments were that I can't wait to hear the "Lee was a traitor who should have been hung" crowd crowing that this was absolute proof what what a vile traitor he was.

To be perfectly honest I didn't pay it too close of attention as I was busy with other things and had merely left it on PBS after Antiques Roadshow went off. But the things that really sticks out to me is that it starts off talking about George Washington Parke Custis death and how that affected the Lee family (I don't remember them even really explaining why Lee was faced with such a daunting task that the children weren't able to recieve what their grandfather had stipulated for them in his will) and that it sounded like it was decided to turn Arlington House into a cemetary only after the war was over and Lee was supposedly preparing to return. Also, it made Lee sound like he was a hard task master towards his family. "Do this or else."

As I said, I wasn't paying it much attention so maybe I missed something. But from the sounds of what you said, 9Bama, I very well may not have.