After finding out what happened to children on Epstein’s island, by the elite and powerful people in the USA.
I consider Adolf Hitler’s dictatorship far better than this rotten democracy.
When democracy shelters monsters, dictatorship doesn’t look so bad.
Today in American History: January 19th, 1807
Happy birthday Robert E. Lee!
🇺🇸 Born January 19, 1807 at Stratford Hall Plantation, Virginia
🇺🇸 Son of Revolutionary War legend "Light-Horse Harry" Lee
🇺🇸 Grows up in reduced circumstances after dad's financial ruin & abandonment
🇺🇸 Moves family to Alexandria, cares for sick mother, gets top-tier classical education
🇺🇸 Enters West Point 1825
🇺🇸 Graduates 2nd in class of 1829 – ZERO demerits (nicknamed "Marble Model")
🇺🇸 Commissioned engineer in U.S. Army
🇺🇸 Builds forts, improves harbors across America
1846–48 Mexican War: serves under Winfield Scott, epic reconnaissance at Cerro Gordo & Chapultepec
🇺🇸 Breveted Major → Lt. Col → Colonel for gallantry – Scott calls him "greatest military genius in America"
🇺🇸 1852–55 Superintendent of West Point – modernizes the academy
🇺🇸 1855–61 commands cavalry on Texas frontier
🇺🇸 1859 leads Marines to capture John Brown at Harpers Ferry
🦅 1861: Lincoln offers him command of Union Army – Lee refuses
🦅 Virginia secedes → resigns U.S. commission, chooses loyalty to home state
🦅 Takes command of Army of Northern Virginia June 1862
🦅 Seven Days Battles: saves Richmond, drives back McClellan
🦅 Second Manassas, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville – stunning victories
🦅 Leads invasions North: Antietam (1862), Gettysburg (1863) – turning points
🦅 Fights Grant to bloody stalemate in 1864 Overland Campaign & Petersburg siege
🦅 April 9, 1865: surrenders to Grant at Appomattox – ends the war with dignity
🇺🇸 Becomes president of Washington College (now Washington & Lee Univ.)
🇺🇸 Promotes education & reconciliation in defeated South
🇺🇸 Goes to be with the Lord on October 12, 1870 in Lexington, VA