Posted on 06/13/2005 4:41:07 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
VERBENA (AP) — A huge Confederate battle flag flying over Interstate 65 north of Montgomery will become a permanent fixture, according to officials with the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
The organization bought land on the side of the interstate near Verbena and put up the flag, which has been flying for several months above the tree lines from the top of a large pole, easily visible from the heavily traveled interstate.
Leonard Wilson, commander of the Alabama division of Sons of Confederate Veterans, said the flag will be dedicated in a ceremony at 5 p.m. on June 26.
The flag is located on a little more than half an acre of land just north of where Autauga County 68 crosses over the interstate, about six miles south of the Verbena exit.
"We put the flag up so people could see it," Wilson said. "We are showing off our heritage. The flag is part of our heritage."
Critics of Confederate flag displays say they are reminders of the slavery era and Alabama's racist past, and can damage Alabama's image when flown beside a busy interstate route to Gulf beaches.
Look how long it took to get the damn game started in the first place!
Suffer the same errors again and again, right?
If we had not voted for President Bush, it would not have mattered what Ohio did.
I think you have been doing your part in educating these people! Keep up the good work.
I think you have been the one insulting people with your so called superior knowledge.
Great!
I just did some research on Butler. Did you know that in August, 1861, he treated slaves in his VA jurisdiction as "contraband"? According to all the sites that I went to, he was not a very nice man!
As I said before, I have no argument with the display of the Confederate battle flag. I see it as a free speech and private property issue. However, I might suggest to you that the Civil War ended in 1865, long before you or I were born, and the real war today is between liberals and conservatives, and between civilized society and Islam. In other words, you need to take a chill pill.
You learn from the past, and then let go of it.
UNfortunately some of the damnyankee coven on FR are too DUMB to be educated.
they cling tightly to their preconceived prejudices, the propaganda of the REVISIONIST LEFT & won't listen to FACTS, no matter how well sourced.
instead they "hide their heads in the sand" & simply ignore inconvenient FACTS.
OR they throw temper tantrums, like a 2 year-old.
free dixie,sw
in point of fact, the war against the mean-spirited, arrogant, hate-FILLED, LEFTIST damnyankees continues "by other means than arms".
the war will be over when dixie is FREE or when the last southerner dies.
until the last damnyankee on FR leaves for their natural home on DU and/or Move-on.com OR stops attacking the southland, her heroes, our sacred battleflag for which so many brave boys died, our memorials/cemeteries and our southern PEOPLE, expect me to be here attacking/humiliating THEM.
free dixie,sw
they, too, were RACISTS, so that is also appropriate for him to post.
free dixie,sw
don't you get tired of being ridiculed by everybody, who has a BRAIN, on FR as an hate-FILLED MORON, who seemingly has neither wit, education nor knowledge???
free dixie,sw
the WAR today for FREEDOM is between blue/red states. (frankly, i'd sooner they called it between the blue & GRAY states, as that is what it truly is!)
as for the islamo-fascists, i don't have a problem with fighting THEM, TOO, as they are our COMMON enemies!
btw, i'll feel better about the northeastern LIBERAL media, when they start ATTACKING the TERRORISTS, start SUPPORTING our troops, start SUPPORTING our PRESIDENT AND/OR close their LYING, DAMNyankee, south-HATING mouths about dixie's flags/memorials/culture/PEOPLE.
free dixie,sw
Well, I would too friend.
free dixie,sw
bump
EXACTLY! :)
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