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...the confederate flag is unwanted and a disgrace simply because it represents a bunch of losers. ....CJ Wolf

Is that your opinion about the Alamo, Wake Island and the "Battlin' Bastards" of Bataan? Is that your opinion about the Union Army of the Potomac at Bull Run, the Seven Days Battles, Second Manassas, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Cold Harbor?......Polybius

You cite battles, I cite the war. The south lost the war.....CJ Wolf

Ummmm.......O.K.

So your criteria is not winning battles but "losing the war". I will rephrase my question:

Is that your opinion about Vietnam War veterans?

Matter of fact the south surrendered like the French.

The Germans took from May 10 - June 22, 1940 to mount a major invasion of France and force a French surrender.

Union forces took from July 21, 1861 to April 9, 1865 to mount a major invasion of Virginia and force a Confederate surrender.

"Is that your opinion about Vietnam War veterans?"

Nice bait... They don't fly the South Vietnam flag in Vietnam, so it would be an accurate comparision. South Vietnam lost and we fought on the loosing side. That is fact.

I would like to say that one of the differences between Vietnam and the War Between the States is that the USA didn't fall nor surrender to North Vietnam, unlike the CSA. We agreed to a ceasefire and pulled out of Vietnam. Which was wise and allowed us to regroup and fight another day. After we left Vietnam we continued to fight global communism in various ways. In that fight, Vietnam can be seen as a battle in a bigger war, a lost battle but one in which we will undoubtable win in time. As such I believe our vietnam vets are honorable men, the south vietnamese however are the losers in that example, they lost their way of life and ceased to exist as a country.

I find it odd that you find pride in a flag that is/was in direct opposition to the Stars and Stripes and this country all the while advocating and glorifying rebellion and the mistakes of your ancestors.

Here is an experiment for you, try putting the wars we fought in order and tell me which of the other loser flags you would want fly. Perhaps you had ancestors fighting for the British against the Colonials too! You could identify with them and put the union jack flag up next to your loser CSA flag.

This flag is kind of cute, made it easy for them to turn it into a surrender flag.

Union forces took from July 21, 1861 to April 9, 1865 to mount a major invasion of Virginia and force a Confederate surrender.

And excepting Chickamauga, rebel forces had no major success outside Virginia Throughout the entire war.

What's your point?

Your statement is wrong any way. Union forces mounted a "major invasion" of Virginia in 1862.

Walt