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Gettysburg to remove Confederate flag items (The Country has Gone Mad!!!!!)
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Posted on 06/25/2015 4:28:04 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: confederateflag; dixie; gettysburg
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To: Red in Blue PA
Something tells me I should not get in on the conversation, being from up Canada way. Still just cannot go on without mentioning my little trip to Atlanta in 1959. There is a splendid building housing the Cyclorama. It is a huge round painting depicting the siege of Atlanta.

Outside is the locomotive called "The Texas". It is mounted and displayed. Union troops had forcibly boarded a locomotive called "The General". They were intent on mayhem and drove many miles away. An engineer and Confederate soldiers chased the General, using the Texas and halted the train.

Sadly, because of the rules of war, eight Union men were hanged. Nine survived. An epic story. Buster Keaton appeared in the 1926 film "The General" loosely based on the real event. His role was of the engineer who was a Southern hero. Very sympathetic to the South, this old movie.

Surely this revisionism will blow over. Even liberals get tired .

61 posted on 06/25/2015 7:24:01 PM PDT by Peter Libra
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To: Red in Blue PA

I said the same.


62 posted on 06/25/2015 7:24:37 PM PDT by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: miss marmelstein
OK, who do they tell the kiddies fought against the Yankees?

Emmanuel Goldstein...

63 posted on 06/25/2015 7:40:30 PM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: jmacusa

The mayor of New Orleans wants to remove the statue of Robert E. Lee. Btw, I think it’s odd that this is happening at the same time that ISIS is destroying churches and other historical sites throughout the Mideast. Interesting coincidence?


64 posted on 06/25/2015 7:40:55 PM PDT by mumblypeg (I've seen the future; brother it is murder. -L. Cohen)
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To: Red in Blue PA

This is outrageous. It’s rewriting history by frenzied mobs. At this write don’t be surprised if the US flag and Forth of July will be next. Farrakahn is already calling for removal of the US flag. The slave ships flew the US, not any Confederate, flags.


65 posted on 06/25/2015 7:45:17 PM PDT by Dante3
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To: Red in Blue PA

A lot of northerners paid a high price driving those flags out once. I don’t think we need to spend another second worrying about the ones left behind.


66 posted on 06/25/2015 7:48:07 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: tanknetter
My father took me to Gettysburg in 1963 for the Centennial. Biggest ten day event I 'er did see. He let me pick a cap. I'm a Yankee but of course I picked a Johnny Reb cap with Confederate Flag on top. It blew off my head and out the window of the car on the long ride back home. My father never spoke a word, but he turned that car around and risked life and limb crossing several lanes of highway, and retrieved my Johnny Reb cap.

A couple of years ago I ordered one of each cap (blue and grey) from the Gettysburg Museum Catalogue for my nephew on his birthday.

67 posted on 06/25/2015 7:59:20 PM PDT by HandyDandy (Don't make-up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Our history is being purged and sanitized right before our eyes.


68 posted on 06/25/2015 10:31:06 PM PDT by Conservative4Ever (Hey Hillary, ... liar, liar pants on fire.-)
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To: Conservative4Ever

And it won’t stop there. They will go after the Founding Fathers, including George Washington, who owned slaves. And I’m as serious as a heart attack about this.


69 posted on 06/25/2015 10:33:05 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Polynikes

“He who shall not be named”

Oh great, what am I supposed to call obama then?

(Seriously - after he was elected and my kids were big into Harry Potter, that’s what I called him around the house!)


70 posted on 06/25/2015 10:35:07 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: dfwgator

Oh I believe you. The American Revolution will have to be sanitized so as to keep the LIV folks from understanding what constitutes actual freedom. I pray for my country, The United States of America.


71 posted on 06/25/2015 10:44:34 PM PDT by Conservative4Ever (Hey Hillary, ... liar, liar pants on fire.-)
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To: Red in Blue PA

The Nazis burned books.


72 posted on 06/26/2015 3:25:06 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: greene66

I am thinking of getting one and flying it continuously...


73 posted on 06/26/2015 7:31:28 AM PDT by goodnesswins (hey..Wussie Americans....ISIS is coming. Are you ready?)
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To: joshua c

You’re right. Liberalism is a belief system. So every fight is a religious war, a jihad, and must have blood. You’re not just wrong, you’re evil.


74 posted on 06/26/2015 8:20:11 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: mumblypeg
I can't say that I do unless it's in the abstract, that is a certain orthodoxy of sorts. I say leave them all up, Stone Mountain, the statues of whomever. They're monuments to the losers.
75 posted on 06/26/2015 3:34:33 PM PDT by jmacusa
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