What were going to do today, ladies and gentlemen, is were going to do robert e. Lee in the postwar years. And my coworker, when they were upstairs before we came down, asked me if this was going to be a beatification, which never hit me, but it might, because i am a big fan of robert e. Lee. What im hoping to do, among others, besides give you a timeline as to what robert e. Lee did in the postwar years, which i think is obviously the most often overlooked portion of his life, because the civil war is always going to be first and foremost. The other main theme of this lecture, im going to try to get across to you, the park service is big on themes, is that the amount of i wouldnt say that he did a lot of work in theory, but through his own personal example is probably the best way, through his own personal example, robert e. Lee tries to reconcile the nation. And what i think a lot of us as americans today have forgotten is that how far apart this country was in 1865. I think it is th
Country, are going to move forward. The efforts that we are making, we need to double or make those much more effective, and therefore, weve written a number of resolves that were intending to do. I think commissioner chung raises, then, the other issue that president bernal has spoken to, which is these are not the only disparities that we need to address, and that often, we kind of take the disparity of the day, spend a lot of effort in it because we have limited resources and forget the others. And i see this resolution, then, as a means of trying to tie all of these together, including the issues that commissioner chung has raised, which should be part of the work being done on the part of black and black transgenders. And we have other areas that include our other minorities that we also need to work on, and i think that is what our final resolve actually speaks to in terms of the work our commission will need to do to address those so that we dont wait for another uprising for an
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