Plan to Show Confederate Flag Draws Heat

AP ^ | Mon Oct 3, 7:08 PM ET | AP

[injin]

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - An organizer of a planned memorial to honor Confederate soldiers who died at an Illinois prison camp says the rebel flag will be displayed at the memorial's dedication, despite opposition.

"We consider this an honorable flag. This is a soldier's flag," said Ron Casteel, national chief of staff for the Sons of Confederate Veterans, one of the memorial's planners. "There will be no substitute."

Camp Butler, just east of Springfield, was a training facility for Union troops during the Civil War and a prison camp for more than 3,500 captured Confederates. More than 800 of the prisoners died and were buried there, and the site is now a national cemetery.

[injin]

SCV ping

[onyx]

Obama, Turbin, NAACP and ADL all object.

TOUGH! The flag can be carried in and out during memorial dedications.

[BIRDS]

Let them fly the flag for this memorial. It's a memorial. Let them fly the flag at this memorial. The rebound rebellion about this flag has gone on long enough, the point has been made, so now, let them fly this flag at this (or any related) memorial. Maybe the rebellious interests should try and understand the other side of the issue for a change.

[injin]

have a look please

http://www.confederateflags.org/

she will fly forever , as long as folks remember , and some do...

[onyx]

THANK YOU!

I have bookmarked the site.

[Cobra64]

I'm a transported Yankee from upstate NY to NC. I have no problem seeing a Confederate Flag here in NC. Karen and I are of the mind-set, that, we are AMERICANS.

imoho

[tkathy]

The confederate flag is a monument to dying for shortsighted stupidity.

[agere_contra]

The confederate flag is a monument to state's rights.

[Smokin' Joe]

If that is the case, then so is every flag under which a soldier has died, for every was has some short sighted stupid moment that gets someone killed.

[PeteB570]

I would think the 1st or 2nd National Flag should be used.

The 3rd National didn't show up until Mar 1865 and as such would have had limited distribution.

For some reason "Flag" people ignore the National Flags and would rather fly an eastern battle flag. A flag that never flew on a pole outside a Confederate government building.

[jeffDavis1861]

I Agree. I fly the First National flag at my home along with the American Flag. Most people do not know what it is. Unfortunately, the battle flag has been desecrated by the KKK and Nazi hate groups and that is truly a shame. Many brave Americans died under that flag and would have fought against those hate groups with the same ferocity that they fought the Northern Aggressors

[tkathy]

Denial is not a river in Egypt.

[zook]

I once read the story of a black gentleman living on Cottage Grove in Chicago who flew the Stars & Bars over his yard. The reason was that his home rested on the site of a POW camp where many southern soldiers died. He simply did it out of respect. As far as I know, that flag still flies over one of Chicago's poorest and blackest neighborhoods.

[stainlessbanner]

DIXIE Bump [><]

[stainlessbanner]

Your post is a monument to shortsighted stupidity. Have a Dixie Day.

[tkathy]

My ancestors had their lives ruined by fighting against the stupidity and shortsightedness of the democrats, both north and south. If they had ceased slavery, countless lives would have been saved.

[sheltonmac]

The confederate flag is a monument to dying for shortsighted stupidity.

Not really. It reminds people of the shortsighted stupidity that so many Southerners fought against.

[stand watie]

what an INCREDIBLY DUMB statement!

are you drinking the REVISIONIST,DAMNyankee kool-aide this AM??

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

just out of curiosity, do you have ANY evidence whatever that what you say is FACTUAL or even INTELLIGENT???

free dixie,sw