[KarlInOhio]

Confederate Flag Love Still Super Strong in Ohio

Let's check the map.

Yep, Ohio's still in the North.

[lee martell]

It’s now Saturday evening, at least in California. So, did this flag fest happen? If I don’t hear any bad news, it must have occured without much negative incidents. Hope so.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

It’s not all that surprising, because from the end of WWII to the 1960’s, there was a large migration of southerners to midwest manufacturing states.

[Paladin2]

[central_va]

Ohio was well known as Copperhead Country.

[Whenifhow]

Ohio Ping

[Tupelo]

Ohio? Ohio. Ohio!

[peteyd]

“Maggie Rice wants the flag banned from future city events and wants to educate on the history of the flag” and I bet she’ll teach those people a thing or two about the Democrap party while she’s at it.
Ya think?????

[Rodamala]

I was leaving the parking lot at the Tractor Supply in my town and noted a truck parked near the flea market they have on Saturday mornings. The truck had both the U.S. flag and the Rebel Flag flying from staffs rigged to the bed, but the Rebel Flag had half of the flag missing (almost like someone made a vertical cut to it and cut it exactly in half... just from being flow on the road and the flag getting tattered.

Right then I saw 2 young guys and a girl returning to the truck from the flea market, with a NEW Rebel flag. I slowed down and hollered to the driver, "I was just gonna say, y'all need a new flag!" and he held up the new flag with a huge grin.

Last I saw they were pulling out behind me and the girl was holding the flag out the window letting it fly in the wind.

This is Northwest Pennsylvania!

[onedoug]

øbama hates these flags. Thus let them fly together, ever onward. Ever one.

[Twinkie]

Our sorta-Yankee son is coming for a visit in a couple of weeks. I always have a Confederate flag silk cushion on a rocker in his bedroom when he comes home for a visit. He likes it. He gets a lot of flak for his membership in the Sons of Confederate Veterans framed certificate that he has on the wall in his office at work. - It’s in his blood. His great-great-great grandfathers on both sides were Rebs. One fought at Shiloh.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

I don’t care what other people think. I fly mine every day.

[Retain Mike]

Rice told Scene that a group she organizes with in Lake County will press Mayor David Anderson to ban the flag from city events, and will work to educate the public about the flag history. The above statement displays the willful ignorance of the flag’s history now so prevalent. I sent this letter to various papers on the subject.

Demeaning Our Military Heritage

This country owes as much of its enviable martial heritage to the South as the North. But now to serve popular morality, we must banish from history the Confederate battle flag and those who served under it. Responding to these assertions, I quote Joshua Chamberlain who received the Confederate surrender at Appomattox.

“Before us in proud humiliation stood the embodiment of manhood: men whom neither toils and sufferings, nor the fact of death, nor disaster, nor hopelessness could bend from their resolve; standing before us now, thin, worn, and famished, but erect, and with eyes looking level into ours, waking memories that bound us together as no other bond;—was not such manhood to be welcomed back into a Union so tested and assured?”

Winston Churchill commented concerning American entry into WW II that victory was then assured, because our Civil War demonstrated the tenacity required to defeat the Nazis.

Joshua Chamberlain
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joshua_Chamberlain