Posted on May 26, 2016
House Would Ban Confederate Flags on VA Cemetery Flagpoles
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Even if you are the type to look with fondness at what the Confederate flag represents, you must admit that this makes logical sense. Why should the USG have flying on its flagpoles a flag that represented an abhorrent system and a group that at one point attempted to destroy the union of states?
House Would Ban Confederate Flags on VA Cemetery Flagpoles
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CPT Mark Gonzalez
COL Jean (John) F. B. nice slide sir. That slide can actually apply to a lot of the post we have seen. I'll have to steal it for some distant time in the future.
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COL Jean (John) F. B.
CPT Mark Gonzalez - Thanks .. LOL... I have several versions. I keep making new ones to respond to subjects that have been beat to death and that there will never be a meeting of the minds on (like abortion, religion, politics, LGBT issues, etc.).
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That is not a Confederate flag sir. It was never officially designated.
But it was however a flag that was designed to make it easier to tell the difference between the Confederates and Union forces on the battlefield.
Im not here to give a long debate, but it was a Army flag under General Lee. And he was against slavery long before the discussion of the Emancipation. His only reason he joined the Confederacy was because he was against the idea of invading his own country and his home in Virginia.
So overall, in my opinion. Better or worse, the flag doesn't represent slavery. Or the CSA because it was not a officially adopted. It was just a flag that flew under a Army which they can identify friend and foe. I'd like to think that the flag represented what Gen Lee ideas and opinions were. But I haven't really researched that deep into it to see what his stance was.
And the name of this flag was the Southern Cross and the other variation was the Navy Jack. They were designed after the St. Andrews cross, flag of Scotland.
If the discussion was about banning the following flags:
Stars and Bars
Stainless Banner
Blood Staind Banner
It would be different story in my opinion. Since they were national flags that represented the idea of slavery. Because in the Souths Constitution, it allowed the right to own slaves.
But it was however a flag that was designed to make it easier to tell the difference between the Confederates and Union forces on the battlefield.
Im not here to give a long debate, but it was a Army flag under General Lee. And he was against slavery long before the discussion of the Emancipation. His only reason he joined the Confederacy was because he was against the idea of invading his own country and his home in Virginia.
So overall, in my opinion. Better or worse, the flag doesn't represent slavery. Or the CSA because it was not a officially adopted. It was just a flag that flew under a Army which they can identify friend and foe. I'd like to think that the flag represented what Gen Lee ideas and opinions were. But I haven't really researched that deep into it to see what his stance was.
And the name of this flag was the Southern Cross and the other variation was the Navy Jack. They were designed after the St. Andrews cross, flag of Scotland.
If the discussion was about banning the following flags:
Stars and Bars
Stainless Banner
Blood Staind Banner
It would be different story in my opinion. Since they were national flags that represented the idea of slavery. Because in the Souths Constitution, it allowed the right to own slaves.
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CPL (Join to see)
Can't edit my original post.
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"But I haven't really researched that deep into it to it."
Where I was going was the relationship between the Southern Cross and the Stainless/Blood Staind Banner. (Typing on my phone so I can't spot errors easily.)
This is where my history gets a little blurry.
But regardless, they are separate flags as a whole.
Delete:
"But I haven't really researched that deep into it to it."
Where I was going was the relationship between the Southern Cross and the Stainless/Blood Staind Banner. (Typing on my phone so I can't spot errors easily.)
This is where my history gets a little blurry.
But regardless, they are separate flags as a whole.
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This one has been beaten to death many times and no one has changed their minds.
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