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w:st="on">i</st1:PersonName>d Clementson</st1:PersonName><o:p></o:p></P>
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align=center><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt">Statement of Attorney General
<st1:PersonName w:st="on">Bob McDonnell</st1:PersonName> on Lee-Jackson Day
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Richmond- </B>Attorney General
<st1:PersonName w:st="on">Bob McDonnell</st1:PersonName> issued the following
statement today in recognition of the Lee-Jackson state holiday in <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Virginia</st1:place></st1:State>.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">“Today, the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Commonwealth</st1:PlaceType> of
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Virginia</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> pauses to remember
two great Virginians, Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Robert E. Lee and Thomas J.
“Stonewall” Jackson were men of honor, duty, faith and humility. Today, they are
remembered foremost for their leadership on the battlefield. They served our
nation, and when duty called, our Commonwealth, with courage and valor.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">However, the legacies of Lee and
Jackson extend beyond the battlefield. They are found in <st1:City
w:st="on">Lexington</st1:City>, where Lee taught his students after the War to
be Americans again, and to pursue lives of honor and obligation, and where
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jackson</st1:place></st1:City> taught
future heroes at Virginia Military Institute. Both men set personal examples
that continue to be remembered to this day.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">As Virginians we share a long,
and sometimes difficult, history. In that history, <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Virginia</st1:place></st1:State> has produced
many great men and women. The lives of Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. “Stonewall”
Jackson remain worthy of study and commemoration.”</P>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>J. Tucker Martin</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Director of Communications</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Virginia Attorney General Bob
McDonnell</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>804-692-0552</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="mailto:Tucker.Martin@oag.state.va.us">Tucker.Martin@oag.state.va.us</A></FONT></DIV>
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