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Louisiana

IbogaProject

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Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Mon Jan 17, 2022, 03:52 PM

Jan 2022

I'm glad about this.

Mr Lee's decedents did not give the land for the Arlington National Cemetery, which was the former Lee estate. That is maybe worth a plaque there, no more. sorry I had read a contrary account.

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