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Personal Narrative: General Robert E. Lee
Many people have many people that they adore, but most people do not have the

person that I adore. I adore him for his bravery for fighting for his beliefs. I adore this

man when I heard that they took down the Confederate Flag. When I heard that I

thought about the people that had died for their beliefs and we put shame to them

because they believed in something different. After I thought about it for a while, there

was one person that came to mind, and that person is General Robert E. Lee. Lee

fought in what he believed in since he graduated college and got a wife and seven kids.

When the reporter said that they took down the flag because the flag means to

hate African-Americans. I felt angry, that is a good enough reason to take

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