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jmacusa - You may not know this about Georgetown University . . . someone has to tell you. In the History tab of their website it says: "To celebrate the end of the Civil War, Georgetown students selected the colors blue (Union) and gray (Confederate) as the school's official colors in 1876."

Can you imagine this University having the audacity to honor, what you call, "traitors" by adopting the color gray? And by boasting about it in 2015.

Georgetown had about a thousand alumni or students in the Confederate Army and didn't take a black undergraduate student until 1950. Indeed, according to one count 4 times as many students fought for the Confederacy as for the Union. So no surprise there.

What is a surprise is that the head of the University had been born a slave. His African-American ancestry was not known at the time. If it had been, he wouldn't have been offered the post.

[jmacusa]

Interesting history. One of the premier infantry divisions of WW2, one of the three American infantry divisions that stormed the beaches of Normandy on June 6th, 1944 was the 29th. Infantry Division, known as “The Blue And Gray’’. After WW1 the Army combined the old New York Irish 69th Infantry Division, “The Fighting 69th.’’ with the 15th. Alabama National Guard. Their shoulder patch resembled a kind of “Yin/Yang/ symbol with a gray stripe over a blue one.