Back in my “youth” I majored in American History in both College and Graduate School, and I even taught it for a couple of years at Wasson High School in Colorado Springs.

While my career has taken me far afield, I retain my love of history. This Spring I am re-reading Shelby Foote’s three volume history of the Civil War and also re-viewing Ken Burns’ Public Television series on the war. Both are outstanding.

The man on the TV is the most famous of all American generals, CSA’s Robert E. Lee.