Today, someone waved a Confederate flag inside the United States Capitol after storming into the building. Perhaps, this individual should take some advice from Gen. Robert E. Lee, who chose to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia rather than to waste the lives of his men when it was clear that victory would be impossible. "Recollect that we form one country now," Lee wrote to a Southern mother who was holding onto hate from the late war, "Abandon all these local animosities and make your sons Americans.” No matter what one thinks about the outcome of the 2020 election, that election is over, and it's time to do the work of trying to unite the country rather than holding onto the animosities that divide us.

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