Obituary: A life chasing stars When Chester “Chet” Maurice Lee graduated from Latrobe High School in 1936, he was given a choice: a full-ride scholarship to Stanford to pursue medicine or a spot in the United States Military Academy’s Class of 1942. Capt. Lee chose the Navy. “He was a true patriot,” said his eldest daughter, Virginia Lee. “I watched him cry when the National Anthem played from the time I was a little girl till the day he died.” Capt. Lee died on February 23, 2000 at the age of
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white supremacist feel that the confederate flag is their heritage and try to use that as an excuse for the flag to stay up.These individuals feel that the flag is not offensive and blacks should just get over it. Mississippi’s state flag containing the confederate battle flag has long time been a controversial issue, to some the flag is a symbols of hate, to others it's “Heritage.” Many people associate the Confederate flag with hate and being racist.The Confederate flag is used as the symbol for
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given among the give up of the war. Although the real technique of renovation could not begin till the struggle ended, tries at restoring the union had been started protracted in advance than that. As some distance lower back as 1860 whilst the Confederate states had been within the technique of disaffiliating from the Union, the Senate Crittenden committee turned into as soon as trying to discover a manner to reverse the method that had already all started. They even projected an exchange to the
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The Confederate flag should bother people. Confederate monuments do and should continue to bother people, but here's the rub; People don't understand what these things mean to our future. Not our past, our future. These things are signposts on the road we began walking centuries ago. They are warnings not to do what they stand for, what they represent. They are lessons. People continue to remove these lessons because they deem them offensive, and this is unhealthy. Along these same lines, do
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Firstly, Sherman states in his prediction “at first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail… your cause will begin to wane,” this statement was directed at the south and their lack of industrial technologies. The confederates did in fact pull ahead in the beginning of the war. In an article titled “Theodore Upson”, the neighbor of a farm boy discovers that the confederacy has captured Fort Sumter. However, in a different article, “Johnny Reb and Billy Yank”, states
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announced that the Emancipation Proclamation had finally gone into effect in the United States. The proclamation was issued so that all slaves in the rebellious states “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free”, meaning that all the slaves in the confederate states are now free from any ownership. Though this proclamation assured that slaves would be freed gradually, it did not free all the slaves. Slave owners were not too happy about this proclamation so they would send their slaves into war instead
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The Countries Greatest Leaders If the Civil War never had happened the U.S. would not be how it is today, there would be slaves still. The country had great leader on both sides, the Union had Ulysses S. Grant, and the Confederate had Robert E. Lee. After the war ended Abraham Lincoln had a difficult task in hand bringing the U.S. as one. He ended slavery as well. If it weren’t for this War, things wouldn’t be the same like they are right now. Ulysses S. Grant was one of the most known leaders
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The glorious days of John F. Kennedy’s presidency are held today with great renown, despite the paucity of his domestic accomplishments. John F. Kennedy, JFK, brought youthfulness and a new vigor to the White House, gaining the attention and affability of the press. However, not everyone was taken by the Kennedys’ grandeur, including Congress, who worked intensely against many of JFK’s bills. Around the world, tensions were also building rapidly, calling Kennedy’s attention to more foreign affairs
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Andrew Johnson gives truth to the saying that in America, anything is possible. Born in a log cabin in North Carolina to nearly illiterate parents, Andrew Johnson struggled with the basics of reading, grammar, or math until he met his wife at the early age of seventeen. Abraham Lincoln in the eyes of many people was America's greatest President, Andrew Johnson, his successor ranked as one of the worst. In the eyes of many people Andrew Johnson was one of the worst to have ever served as President
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Back in the day before the Civil War, slaves were mistreated in ways no one would want to be treated. They would be considered as a property than a person even though they are also living human beings like the white folks. Bruises, sprained ankles, and new or past scars were the punishment made by their owners if the black folks don’t obey. The white men would rely on black people because they were useful, they would get the job done, and the owners wouldn’t have to break a sweat to accomplish a
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