The Truth About The Confederate Battle Flag

The Sierra Times ^ | 21 Jun 05 | Leon Puissegur

[MacDorcha]

I tend to look at people as more than just a brain (thought) and body (action)

We also have souls. And the soul of a soldier is what I admire. The brain may not be proper, and the body may not always do the right thing... but the soul remains true to it's calling.

That, to me, is what makes a hero.

[Alexander Rubin]

That's a noble sentiment. I definitely see where you're coming from, and I'll meet you halfway. But, morality is not always as grey as the lefties would have us believe; Hitler may have had noble intentions, but he's a monster, not a hero.

It depends what means you use to achieve your ends (which must be noble) whether someone is a hero or not.

[MacDorcha]

Hitler was also a politician. Not a soldier in his own war.

You meet me further than you think.

[stand watie]

NOPE. i have NO bad feelings about the Stars & Stripes, BUT i wish that the LEFTIST/clueLESS/arrogantly ignorant damnyankees felt the same about our battleflags.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

skinheads, noe-nazis & the klan have bebased the CROSS of JESUS CHRIST, too.

should we abandon the CROSS, too????

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

YEP.

WELL-said.

free dixie,sw

[Alexander Rubin]

Being Jewish, I couldn't tell you. I would say no, but it's for you to decide. Though, as far as I know, many neo-nazis are vehemently anti-Christian, as they think it's just another Jewish plot. They tend to use the Celtic cross more than the Christian cross, in an effort that I would suppose attempts to celebrate Celtic/white heritage. Which they have hideously debased, but noetheless...

Think of it this way, though. If you were a Hindu, would you fly a swastika flag on your lawn?

[The Last Rebel]

If R.E. Lee was a traitor, so was George Washington.


TLR

[stand watie]

what is being/not being a Hindu have to do with a nazi flag????

could it be that you have the "East Indians" confused with the AmerIndians???

the swastika was an AmerIndian symbol for thousands of years, before the nazi idiots adopted a SIMILAR symbol. (fwiw, the AmerIndian symbol has arms that are "bent" the other way.)

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

WELL SAID!

the tyrants always describe FREEDOM FIGHTERS as traitors and/or terrorists.

free dixie,sw

[Alexander Rubin]

That might be. I thought it was Hindu, though, not Amerindian.

[stand watie]

that's OK.

we all make mistakes (except those of the extremist/arrogantly ignorant/self-righteous unionist coven of DAMNyankees. sarcasm button: ON.). it just means we're HUMAN.

free dixie,sw

[driveserve]

Well watie, you're nothing if not consistent. I too have grown weary (years ago) of all these folks getting their feelings hurt by some flag or another. Some Ten Commandments or another. Some word or another.

Fly it high, fly it proud...

[stand watie]

understood.

at least i hope i'm consistent. all too many here have NO apparent principles & change like the wind.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

rotflmRao!

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

doesn't change the fact that you are clueLESS, either.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

sadly, you seem INCAPABLE of understanding the TRUTH.

pity.

free dixie,sw

[Hacksaw]

Nonsense. The confederacy started losing from the very beginning.

ROTFLMAO!!! You people are like Scientologists.

[Republic_of_Secession.]

Great article. Great points. Note: someone placed the word Stars & Bars for this article when the fact of the matter is that the Confederate First National Flag was the Stars & Bars. After all it actually had bars while the Confederate Battle Flag does not have bars as it was a saltire. No wonder so many people do not know the truth when they can not even get the names of the various flags right.