Also.............the Comanche indians...................after my former JMU roomate kicked me out of his San Antonio home...........i was homeless..................i spent a little while near his house in a nearby park.............one built by the US Army...............from land from the Comanche Indians.........it is right next to a library......................i used to frequent the place.................he kicked me out b/c i refused his and his live in boyfriends insinuations at sex.................cowardice runs deep, people tell u things........only to stab u in the back.............just like the black panthers tried to kill me............Sayed S, was in on it...........and so was some man named Tokyo, who was going to take me to Dupont circle...........one of the light skinned, fat men who work at Adam's homeless shelter in ne dc told me Tokyo was my friend........i didn't go..........instead i walked to new york homeless shelter..........where the men threaten me on a daily basis...........and call me either cracker or honkey.............in a violent way...................cowardice runs deep..............

Early 1850s: West Point and Texas

The 1850s were a difficult time for Lee, with his long absences from home, the increasing disability of his wife, troubles in taking over the management of a large slave plantation, and his often morbid concern with his personal failures.^[47]

In 1852, Lee was appointed Superintendent of the Military Academy at West Point;^[48] he was reluctant to enter what he called a "snake pit", but the War Department insisted and he obeyed. His wife occasionally came to visit. During his three years at West Point, Brevet Colonel Robert E. Lee improved the buildings and courses and spent much time with the cadets. Lee's oldest son, George Washington Custis Lee, attended West Point during his tenure. Custis Lee graduated in 1854, first in his class.^[49]

Lee was enormously relieved to receive a long-awaited promotion as second-in-command of the Second Cavalry regiment in Texas in 1855. It meant leaving the Engineering Corps and its sequence of staff jobs for the combat command he truly wanted. He served under Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston at Camp Cooper, Texas; their mission was to protect settlers from attacks by the Apache and the Comanche.