Lee lost everything, even his home becoming Arlington National Cemetery. But Lee exemplified a path towards Hilly. The most interesting thing to me about General Lee is what happened after he had lost the war. He could have said, men scatter and become gorillas, and if that would have happened, the Civil War would have dragged on another 5-10. He could almost still be going to this day, and the courage that would have taken from him to tell his soldiers who did every sacrifice imaginable in their cause. And then when they were defeated to say, okay, look, now it's time to heal this country and to be Americans. Generally, wanted to become an American citizen again. He apologized for his role in the Confederacy. He served as a college president, and he wanted to make a man. There's a chance to be redeemed in America if people look for that opportunity. And if Lee can do it, people could do it after the Civil War. People can do it after Jim Crow, and people can do it after the turbulent 1960s.