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Confederate Flags Taken Down from Ft. Sumter
WCNC ^ | June 29, 2015 | WCNC

Posted on 06/30/2015 5:21:21 AM PDT by Raebie

Charleston, SC (WLTX) - The historic site where the first shots of the Civil War were fired is no longer flying versions of the Confederate flag above it.

The U.S. National Park Service ordered all flags to be taken down at Ft. Sumter in Charleston except for the American flag.

The banners that were removed are neither the traditional Confederate flag that's most typically displayed by individuals, nor is it the battle flag version that currently flies in front of the South Carolina State House. Instead, the flags were the less frequently seen national flags of the Confederacy.

The park service also took down the South Carolina state flag.

(Excerpt) Read more at wcnc.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: confederate; dixie; flag
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To: Raebie

How is the National Park Service now going to interpret the Late Unpleasantness at battle sites? That Union forces fired at each other? That they were just having war games? The insanity of political correctness abounds.


21 posted on 06/30/2015 6:05:22 AM PDT by liberalism is suicide (Communism,fascism-no matter how you slice socialism, its still baloney)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
In Sunday's Tampa Tribune there was a picture of a queer flag with a stars inset with the queer colors where the stripes should have been flying behind a motorcycle. I was sick.
22 posted on 06/30/2015 6:05:46 AM PDT by sport
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To: Howie66

we passed that point. Our Forefathers were shooting by now.


23 posted on 06/30/2015 6:07:31 AM PDT by sport
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To: Old Sarge

True, one would think by now that a whole lot of pushback would be happening.

Barely a whimper.


24 posted on 06/30/2015 6:09:48 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Raebie

It’s not stupidity, it is erasing history. The history of the United States is being erased. This works in conjunction with TPP.


25 posted on 06/30/2015 6:10:25 AM PDT by Ray76 (Obama says, "Unlike my mum, Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark's father was.")
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To: Raebie

Death of American History. No longer a country of truth. This will be our undoing!


26 posted on 06/30/2015 6:10:43 AM PDT by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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To: Raebie

Death of American History. No longer a country of truth. This will be our undoing!


27 posted on 06/30/2015 6:10:58 AM PDT by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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To: Raebie

America surrenders her heritage and history to pimple-faced Reichstag boy and a Marxist Muslim from Mombasa.


28 posted on 06/30/2015 6:12:40 AM PDT by golux
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To: Raebie

Does this mean the civil war is finally over in the south?


29 posted on 06/30/2015 6:15:23 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: vetvetdoug

“The director of the NPS is the same one that locked out the veterans from the WWII Memorial on Obama’s directive.”

The Director of the NPS is a big promoter of the climate change myth.

His boss, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, is former CEO of REI and a big environmentalist. One way to protest is not to spend at REI.


30 posted on 06/30/2015 6:18:56 AM PDT by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: dforest
Seriously? I am 51 years old they have been brainwashing kids for 50 years. How do you think Obama ended up the way he did. I grew up in a big city in Ohio. Just about every damn teacher I ever had was a whacked out Liberal. Earth Day started when I was in Kindergarden. Damn!
31 posted on 06/30/2015 6:19:40 AM PDT by defconw (Fight all error, and do it with good humor, patience, kindness and love. -St. John Cantius)
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To: Raebie

It doesn’t stop with the Left as they are like sharks that smell blood in the water.


32 posted on 06/30/2015 6:25:10 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Raebie

All together now, prols. "The Gay Pride Flag flew over Fort Sumter during the Civil War. The Confederate Flag never flew over Ft. Sumter. The Confederate Flag never existed."

33 posted on 06/30/2015 6:48:48 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Raebie

34 posted on 06/30/2015 6:58:02 AM PDT by red-dawg (NO Prisoners.)
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To: red-dawg

35 posted on 06/30/2015 6:58:49 AM PDT by red-dawg (NO Prisoners.)
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To: sport
Well, thanks to the actions of a majority of voters in 2008 and 2012, the inmates are now running the asylum.

I don't blame them so much as I do the Liberal Democrat Union member Media out of New York and Los Angeles that deliberately misleads the public.

If they weren't doing what they were doing, the public would not be making stupid decisions.

36 posted on 06/30/2015 7:01:39 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: DoodleDawg

And of course, one of the supporters of Union state slavery makes his appearance.


37 posted on 06/30/2015 7:03:45 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: Howie66
I believe we are.

Gear up, people.

I dare say, video/theatrical skills would make better weapons for this fight.

38 posted on 06/30/2015 7:04:54 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: Busko
Death of American History. No longer a country of truth. This will be our undoing!

This has been going on a long time. You should read how the Union Apologists distort history.

39 posted on 06/30/2015 7:07:20 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: Tupelo

Fear not. 0bama has Homeland Security fast tracking H1B visas so ISIS members can come in and blow up Stone Mountain, GA.


40 posted on 06/30/2015 7:11:23 AM PDT by Rodamala
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