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CPT Jack Durish
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I've said it before... Please, make it stop! I can't stand anymore lunacy this year
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SSgt Christopher Brose
SSgt Christopher Brose
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The lunatics took over the asylum when they elected a qualification-less President mostly because of the color of his skin. I have been ducking my head ever since.
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SP5 Mark Kuzinski
SP5 Mark Kuzinski
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I don't see it stopping lately CPT Jack Durish - It's getting real crazy and it will only continue if HRC gets elected!! God save us.
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Col Dona  Marie Iversen
Col Dona Marie Iversen
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My VERY sharp 85 yr old blind Italian mother claims all this craziness stems from the space program 'messing up our equilibrium'!!!
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SGT Writer
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ALCON,
None of us matter, objectively. "No one" means all homo sapiens, humans, people, etc. Call out stupidity with tact and patience instead of anger to ensure everyone knows who the fool is in a argument.
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SPC Erich Guenther
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I live in Texas let me drop you a few hints from Texas history and you can be the judge. The biggest problem area in Texas for racism is East Texas, East of a line if you were to draw it from Dallas down to Houston, maybe a little West over the line in places. Just by coincidence that is where most of the large cotton plantations were. By another coincidence thats where the primary support for slavery came from during the great debate of which side Texas would pick in the Civil War. In Texas you have two confederate flags to choose from. You have the largely non-confrontational Confederate States of America flag (Stars and Bars). Or you have the hugely confrontational Confederate Battle Flag, a flag by the way in which General Lee ordered cased to never fly again at the end of the Civil War. Now if you really were concerned about heritage instead of hate which flag would you pick? So this White Lives Matter group appears in Houston Texas, primarily made up of folks from East Texas, and they are waving the Confderate Battle Flag around (open defiance of General Lees last orders as a General). You decide what they are. I have a pretty good idea in my head as I do not believe in a daisy chain of coincidences.
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SPC Erich Guenther
SPC Erich Guenther
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The CBF is not racist by itself it is the symbol of that flag in which massacres were conducted, people hanged in it's precence, and after the Civil War when white supremacists attempted the Lost Cause movement it came back to be used as a banner for white supramicist groups. The rough analogy is the former German World War I flag, which they tried to use for their Merchant Marine......it was OK to be flown or displayed in the 1980's but because of adoption by Neo-Nazi groups as a symbol is now largely banned in Germany. We will never ban the CBF in the United States because of the First Amendment but folks should really use their common sense about displaying it.

Here is an image of the German flag only rarely seen during Nazi times but originated in World War I. https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41w2DIG2AVL._AC_US174_.jpg
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SPC James Harsh
SPC James Harsh
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Thanks for clarrifying
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Sgt Vernon Fulmer
Sgt Vernon Fulmer
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Finally someone who uses actual history to explain the situation at hand. No, not a coincidence. The battle flag of the army of northern Virginia is what people know, not the first national. I can appreciate heritage, however, it's been bastardized by those who want to perpetuate hate.
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CPT John Sheridan
CPT John Sheridan
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Context always matters. Nice history lesson. Prior to its adoption by Nazi Germany, the swastika had many meanings. At least in Europe and North America, no one would fly a Swastika flag and claim it's about "heritage". Some examples below. The symbol of the US Army 45th Infantry Division prior to the 1930's and the 1922 women's hockey team from Fernie, British Columbia.

I doubt many of the yahoo's running around flaying the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virgina could give much, if any, historical context.
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