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Very old thread to be brought back to life.
I do understand why some people when they see a symbol
can be upset and even hurt.
But give some thought here:
It is a flag, a flag that brave young men, women and boys (black and white BTB) fought under and for. And they were all, for the most part, Americans. Would that not make it an American flag? One whose honor was taken from it after the War.
For your summer reading I would suggest James M. McPherson's For Cause & Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War.
Little story from several years ago. There was a weekend Civil
War reenactment scheduled somewhere in the Mid-West. Another group thought that it would be a good idea to show up as they thought they had a large group of supporters there.
Well, that was not what they found. The news got into the camps. The officers stopped the reenactment and called the camps together. They formed up together behind their combined Honor Guards and marched off the field and into town with fixed bayonets. The police did not stop them and the guys in the white robes took one look and ran.
In interviews, most said that they were just defending their Flags' Honor.
I know and understand that this rather narrow view of the situation and that others have a right to have other POV's.
BTB, if any group really wanted to show that they were serious about boycotting over a flag, they would go after Florida. And
that has yet to happen.
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