"In 1865, after the war, Lee was paroled and signed an oath of allegiance, asking to have his citizenship of the United States restored. However, his application was misplaced and as a result he did not receive a pardon and his citizenship was not restored.
On January 30, 1975, Senate Joint Resolution 23, A joint resolution to restore posthumously full rights of citizenship to General R. E. Lee was introduced into the Senate by Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr. (I-VA), the result of a five-year campaign to accomplish this.
The resolution, which enacted Public Law 94–67, was passed, and the bill was signed by President Gerald Ford on September 5."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Confederate_monuments_and_memorials
"Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials is an ongoing process in the United States since the 1960s. Many municipalities in the United States have removed monuments and memorials on public property dedicated to the Confederate States of America (CSA), and some, such as Silent Sam in North Carolina, have been torn down by protestors.
The momentum to remove Confederate memorials increased dramatically following the high-profile incidents including the Charleston church shooting (2015), the Unite the Right rally (2017), and the killing of George Floyd (2020).
The removals have been driven by the belief that the monuments glorify white supremacy, memorialize an unrecognized, treasonous government whose founding principle was the perpetuation of slavery, and that the presence of these Confederate memorials over a hundred years after the subjugation of the Confederacy continues to disenfranchise and alienate African Americans."
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Last Known WWII Nazi Living In U.S., Deported To Germany Last Year, Is Dead at 95
January 11, 20196:49 AM ET
"A Nazi war criminal, living safely in the United States until his deportation to Germany last year, has died.
He had been the last known World War II Nazi living in the U.S."
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/11/684324935/last-wwii-nazi-living-in-us-deported-to-germany-last-year-is-dead-at-95
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German prosecutors have intensified their hunt for the last remaining Nazis before they die of old age, USA Today reported last year.
Nazi hunters estimated that dozens of Nazis could still be alive."
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"f anyone has ever said or written anything bad about you, you may have wondered if you could sue that person for doing so. "Defamation" is the legal word for some kinds of false statements.
Libel and slander are two forms of defamation.
Defamation is defined as a false statement communicated to another person that damages your reputation. Libel is communicating a defamatory statement by writing or picture, while slander is defamation by oral or spoken communication.
If such words were written or spoken about you, you are not defamed if the words were true.
Truth is a complete defense to defamation. Even if your reputation is damaged by a defamatory communication, you cannot collect any money if the communication was true.
Other defenses include statements made in jest (where the communication was not intended to be taken seriously), and when the communication was an opinion (not actionable) and not a fact"
https://www.osbar.org/public/legalinfo/1186_LibelSlander.htm
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