This month many Americans, especially Southerners, will celebrate the birthday of one of the greatest Americans that ever lived. His name, Robert Edward Lee. Of course he is known to most simply as "General Lee."

Although his fame as a military leader causes his name to be remembered by some, it is the enduring legacy of his character and faith that continues to inspire thousands of Southerners and non-Southerners alike.

His character that of a true, and sincere gentleman, loving husband, and father and his Christian faith almost seems to many of us today to be somehow unreal, or unbelievable, especially compared to the character traits of so many of our leaders of today.

But without a doubt, the General was all he has been made out to be, and certainly his greatest trait, that of modesty and humility, make him very believable. After all, he was the one leader of either side during our great struggle between North, and South, to look his men in the eye, and say, 'It is all my fault" (after the repulse of Pickett's charge at Gettysburg).

Time and space will not permit a review of Lee's life here, but when your children ask you about the things that they hear on the evening news, and they want to know what "character" means, please refer them a man who personified it many times over, Robert Edward Lee, still a hero as long as one American values honor, courage, bravery, and devotion to duty.