Monday, December 10, 2012

R. E. Lee in 1980

The summer of 1980 was the hottest and driest in my memory. It was brutal. One other thing I remember from it, though, which was a real positive. I joined the History Book Club in order to get Douglas Freeman's four-volume biography of General Robert E. Lee, and read it that summer. I honestly can say it was one of the most profitable personal exercises I have ever undertaken. The general was an outstanding gentleman in every sense of the word.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I might like to borrow that from you sometime, Pappy.

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MICHAELSPAPPY said...

Any time. If you can read his description of Appamatox without getting misty-eyed, you are stronger than I am.

Drewba said...

or just as emotional as a rock

an excelletn recommendation, i will have to put it on my list