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I "fly" the CBF as an emblem on my SCV state license tag. Those who have problems with it will usually demonstrate their hatred first.
To have been aged 18 to 40 in 1861 and not have fought, one had better have been disabled, despite their ideology of slavery. Many fought because it was the honorable neighborhood thing to do, to protect their way of life from an invader. Those who didn't enlist for service were considered worse then than the Vietnam draft evaders of the 60's & 70's.
That being said, I'm proud to fly the CBF in honor of the sacrifice my grandparents made. Rather than "running", they stood, they fought, many died, and they fought honorably.
Yet when one of my grandparents finished his service as a Corporal, when he arrived back home, he threw his jacket underneath his house for his dog to sleep on because the time of warring with our Northern counterparts had come to an end. The war was over. He hung his muzzle-loader by the triggerguard on a nail under a shed on the tobacco barn. There it stayed until the guard rusted into and it fell on the ground and broke the stock. The last time it was fired would be on the day he died in 1917.
the "general public" is DUMB!
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