When I was growing up the only time you ever heard about the Civil War was in history class or in a movie. It was never a topic of conversation.

When my sales territory was changed to include Roanoke and Richmond,VA areas, I then saw life sized portraits of Robert E. Lee for the first time.

It was also where I got my first lecture about “States Rights”. A customer In Roanoke, VA who had a LARGER than life portrait of Robert E. Lee in his office was telling me about going in to see his kids “Yankee” teacher to set her straight about the Civil War. He was upset because the teacher had told the class that the Civil War was about slavery.

I told him that I had always thought that was what the war was about.

Bad move on my part.

I spent the next 2 hours getting a history lesson from his point of view!

Bob
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