Lee-Jackson Day 2016

Lee-Jackson 2016 03from Chris

Today is Lee-Jackson Day in Virginia. As a state holiday, it’s formally observedĀ on the Friday before Martin Luther King, Jr., Day. The actual day is today, though, because it falls between the birthdays of two of the Confederacy’s most famous generals, Robert E. Lee (Jan. 19) and Stonewall Jackson (Jan. 21).

For years, the day went observed without much controversy, but its gathered more and more criticism in recent years because of Lee’s and Jackson’s associations with …