Confederate flag

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Don't need to go to the deep south. We them at OBX and we see them at the Eastern Shore every time we go.

And I see them in the redneck havens of south central PA, quite often.

There actually used to be a little shack of a bar called the Rebel Bar flying a Confederate Flag on Route 2 in northern Massachusetts. Don't know if it's still there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am a proud descendant of confederate veterans. My father proudly displayed our confederate battle flag in Vietnam. The confederate flag fills me with pride in my region. I don't care what you have to say otherwise.

I'm a proud descendant of Scotland, and I'm happy to wear my family tartan, but I don't fly the Scottish flag at my house.

Well it wouldn't bother me if you did though perhaps I live in a free state of mind, and others would castigate you for flying th colors of a "foreign power."

You're not my master and you'll never take my colors from me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People are, of course, free to debate whether the Confederate flag represents racism. However, it is indisputable that the Confederacy was, for its entire existence, an enemy of the United States of America. Therefore, flying its flag is akin to flying a Nazi flag or the flag of another entity that was always an enemy of the U.S.

The confederate battle flag has been proudly displayed by U.S. Service men in every major conflict since the civil war.

Where?! Not in the armed forces!

And not by any US service man I ever had the privilege of serving with in the US Army. You will NEVER see any Confederate Flag flying above any US base in the world.

Not above a base of course. That's just dumb, though I believe one was flown in ww2 over a Japanese island

So you went from "The Confederate flag has proudly been displayed in every major conflict since the Civil War" to MAYBE just one over an occupied Japanese Island in WWII?

I guarantee you, if the Japanese Island story is true, that it was never sanctioned by US military officers or the US government. If true, that was a horrible thing to do.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are, of course, free to debate whether the Confederate flag represents racism. However, it is indisputable that the Confederacy was, for its entire existence, an enemy of the United States of America. Therefore, flying its flag is akin to flying a Nazi flag or the flag of another entity that was always an enemy of the U.S.

The confederate battle flag has been proudly displayed by U.S. Service men in every major conflict since the civil war.

Where?! Not in the armed forces!

Of course- try using the "Google" engine and you'll find plenty of war pictures with our boys flying the colors.

[Anonymous]

First Lieutenant Arch Hodge hoisted one over LaHaye du Puits in Normandy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People are, of course, free to debate whether the Confederate flag represents racism. However, it is indisputable that the Confederacy was, for its entire existence, an enemy of the United States of America. Therefore, flying its flag is akin to flying a Nazi flag or the flag of another entity that was always an enemy of the U.S.

The confederate battle flag has been proudly displayed by U.S. Service men in every major conflict since the civil war.

Where?! Not in the armed forces!

And not by any US service man I ever had the privilege of serving with in the US Army. You will NEVER see any Confederate Flag flying above any US base in the world.

Not above a base of course. That's just dumb, though I believe one was flown in ww2 over a Japanese island

It was sanctioned - the co was a son of the confederacy.

So you went from "The Confederate flag has proudly been displayed in every major conflict since the Civil War" to MAYBE just one over an occupied Japanese Island in WWII?

I guarantee you, if the Japanese Island story is true, that it was never sanctioned by US military officers or the US government. If true, that was a horrible thing to do.

[Anonymous]

Www.confederatelegion.com has some great pictures.

[Anonymous]

Of course, showing the confederate flag in the dc area will get your car keyed right quick so that I don't recommend.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am a proud descendant of confederate veterans. My father proudly displayed our confederate battle flag in Vietnam. The confederate flag fills me with pride in my region. I don't care what you have to say otherwise.

I'm a proud descendant of Scotland, and I'm happy to wear my family tartan, but I don't fly the Scottish flag at my house.

Well it wouldn't bother me if you did though perhaps I live in a free state of mind, and others would castigate you for flying th colors of a "foreign power."

You're not my master and you'll never take my colors from me.

Well said brother!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: First Lieutenant Arch Hodge hoisted one over LaHaye du Puits in Normandy.

Oh, well I guess if Arch Hodge thought it was OK, then I guess you proved your point

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a proud descendant of confederate veterans. My father proudly displayed our confederate battle flag in Vietnam. The confederate flag fills me with pride in my region. I don't care what you have to say otherwise.

I'm a proud descendant of Scotland, and I'm happy to wear my family tartan, but I don't fly the Scottish flag at my house.

Well it wouldn't bother me if you did though perhaps I live in a free state of mind, and others would castigate you for flying th colors of a "foreign power."

You're not my master and you'll never take my colors from me.

flying the reb flag to celebrate that you are a free man without a master, I'm loving the irony.

CSA lost, and your ancestors were losers.... deal with it. There will be no "rise again."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a proud descendant of confederate veterans. My father proudly displayed our confederate battle flag in Vietnam. The confederate flag fills me with pride in my region. I don't care what you have to say otherwise.

I'm a proud descendant of Scotland, and I'm happy to wear my family tartan, but I don't fly the Scottish flag at my house.

Well it wouldn't bother me if you did though perhaps I live in a free state of mind, and others would castigate you for flying th colors of a "foreign power."

You're not my master and you'll never take my colors from me.

What a strange reversal of fortune for you.

[Anonymous]

People used to feel this way about collecting Black Americana, until black folk decided it was an important part of history. I feel the same way about the Confederate flag.

We can't re-write history, just because we don't like it. Doing so destines us to repeat it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a proud descendant of confederate veterans. My father proudly displayed our confederate battle flag in Vietnam. The confederate flag fills me with pride in my region. I don't care what you have to say otherwise.

I'm a proud descendant of Scotland, and I'm happy to wear my family tartan, but I don't fly the Scottish flag at my house.

Well it wouldn't bother me if you did though perhaps I live in a free state of mind, and others would castigate you for flying th colors of a "foreign power."

You're not my master and you'll never take my colors from me.

What a strange reversal of fortune for you.

It's not about slavery for me that's the whole point- you are the one with the fantasy that southern whites want to enslave blacks. If that makes you feel good about yourself (at my expense), so be it. There's no irony, no reversal of fortune. I am deeply proud of my heritage, I walk standing tall and you cannot I take that or my colors away from me.