I was based at Ft. Jackson in 1991 and they still flew the rebel flag at the courthouse in Columbia S.C.
Nobody cared then either.
I've always thought that the Confederate flag was just part of the white South, nothing more, nothing less.
After all, that war ended 140 years ago. It would be pretty hard for anyone to care now....especially when the South went down in flames.
Civil wars are the worst since there are no winners. Only Americans died there. Terrible time for all Americans. That took so long to heal, it simply can't happen again. Word wars, like we have now, are the best way to iron out problems.
And please, to all the freeper lawyers, wordmeisters and pickers of NIT, no lectures on the odd foreigner who might have died along with all the blue and grey.