SouthernN'Proud
Southern Discomfort
from tonguetied.us
The NAACP has drafted two Illinois senators in its crusade to prevent officials from flying a Confederate flag at the dedication of a memorial to Confederate dead in central Illinois, reports the Journal-Register.
The memorial is being built at Camp Butler National Cemetery near Riverton, the site of a prison camp for Confederate soldiers. Some 866 Confederate soldiers died there during the war.
Illinois' senators Barack Obama and Dick Durbin have asked federal officials to bar display of the stars and bars at the memorial.
"We, along with the NAACP and many Americans, believe that the Confederate flag has become more than an historic battle standard; for millions of Americans it is a symbol of slavery and segregation," the senators said in a letter to the director of the National Cemetery Administration.
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What a sad day indeed. Like it or not, defend it or not, thousands upon thousands of people died for the ideals symolized by the Confederate battle flag, as well as the other official flags of the Confederacy. I have several ancestors among them, including a great-great-great uncle who was lynched on his own property by a band of invading union soldiers who happened across him wearing his uniform (likely the best clothes he owned) and working on his own farm to provide for his family while on leave from his regimen. They forced his family to watch at gunpoint. So much for high ideals.
These men are war heroes by any definition. They deserve to be memorialized. They do not deserve to be dissected by the PC knife of four future generations. I have seen the flags of many other nations fly here in my hometown for special events, and nary a speck of trauma has it caused me. Not one person alive today was a slave in this country. I fail to see how giving these men a proper meorial is hurting anyone. I'm sure several of you will jump through your assholes to TELL me what a trauma it is though.
Jump away. When you repeat something you heard elsewhere that I haven't heard before I'll be sure and let you know.
The NAACP has drafted two Illinois senators in its crusade to prevent officials from flying a Confederate flag at the dedication of a memorial to Confederate dead in central Illinois, reports the Journal-Register.
The memorial is being built at Camp Butler National Cemetery near Riverton, the site of a prison camp for Confederate soldiers. Some 866 Confederate soldiers died there during the war.
Illinois' senators Barack Obama and Dick Durbin have asked federal officials to bar display of the stars and bars at the memorial.
"We, along with the NAACP and many Americans, believe that the Confederate flag has become more than an historic battle standard; for millions of Americans it is a symbol of slavery and segregation," the senators said in a letter to the director of the National Cemetery Administration.
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What a sad day indeed. Like it or not, defend it or not, thousands upon thousands of people died for the ideals symolized by the Confederate battle flag, as well as the other official flags of the Confederacy. I have several ancestors among them, including a great-great-great uncle who was lynched on his own property by a band of invading union soldiers who happened across him wearing his uniform (likely the best clothes he owned) and working on his own farm to provide for his family while on leave from his regimen. They forced his family to watch at gunpoint. So much for high ideals.
These men are war heroes by any definition. They deserve to be memorialized. They do not deserve to be dissected by the PC knife of four future generations. I have seen the flags of many other nations fly here in my hometown for special events, and nary a speck of trauma has it caused me. Not one person alive today was a slave in this country. I fail to see how giving these men a proper meorial is hurting anyone. I'm sure several of you will jump through your assholes to TELL me what a trauma it is though.
Jump away. When you repeat something you heard elsewhere that I haven't heard before I'll be sure and let you know.
