"Millions"? Really? Perhaps a bit of hyperbole?
Civil War Casualties The Cost of War: Killed, Wounded, Captured, and Missing
Posted on 03/22/2015 12:28:41 PM PDT by PROCON
Texas commemorates the Confederacy in many ways, from an annual celebration of Confederate Heroes Day each January to monuments on the grounds of the state Capitol in Austin. Among the memorials is one that has stood for more than a century, bearing an image of the Confederate battle flag etched in marble.
But you're out of luck if you want to put that flag on your license plate. Texas says that would be offensive.
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I do not recognize your right to go through life
being un-offended by what others may say and do.
Take up your cause to repeal the 1st amendment,
and take it somewhere else.
Lincoln’s war to “save the union”, effectively destroyed it.
I spent the third grade in Cocoa. My Dad was working on the Cape. :-)
“There is no honor in dissing America to fly a flag of hate, regardless of the excuses, a flag flown by over dead Americans.”
You’re right.
Except I disagree that the Confederate flag represents “hate.” It represents a political disagreement that was resolved by a terrible war of rebellion. It’s no more “hateful” than the original flag of the colonies that George Washington carried into battle against England.
Revolutions can be great if you win — 13 colonies became the United States of America. And the Founding Fathers are great men — traitors who WON.
But revolutions are hell on the traitors if you lose. And the Confederate traitors lost. The moment they surrendered, they also lost the right to fly that flag on official government documents, like license plates. FOREVER. Don’t pop up 150 years later and say it’s okay to fly the flag of traitors because History.
Fly the Confederate in your yard if you want. But you’re still flying the flag of traitors. Who not only lost, but killed millions of their own countrymen to boot. It’s shameful... but I wouldn’t call it hateful. Just ignorant.
Did you go to government school?
I’ve always believed that the hatred of freedom and the desire to impose their own form of slavery has been what liberals-get off on-they are really no different from any other extremist of any stripe, and I don’t have any use for any of them-my ancestors left Spain to get away from a lack of freedom-I’m sure they didn’t mind the snakes, heat, hostile natives, etc as long as they were able to ranch in the wilderness away from the king’s representatives...
Irony is lost on you, ain’t it?
"Millions"? Really? Perhaps a bit of hyperbole?
Civil War Casualties The Cost of War: Killed, Wounded, Captured, and Missing
Come back here and defend yourself.
At this point, your post looks like something posted by a coward.
You are absolutely off the Christmas card list this year.
The Antietam Battlefield also forbade any statues of Robert E Lee.
Some rich guy got pissed, bought property adjacent and had his own made, at great expense.
That thing is just freaking glorious.
“and vote for the nice Democrats.”
As rare as unicorns.
Your odious attitude Illusrtates why there is still antipathy toward the US government for committing war crimes in the South, such as Sherman’s slaughter of civilians in his infamous “March to the Sea.” Those memories do not fade because they are part of family histories across the South.
Two GG Grandfathers both fought with CSA out of North Carolina. I am proud of my heritage and I’ll be damned if I’ll have a bunch of mamby bamby liberal progressives attempt to erase their honorable service and or rewrite history.
Sons of Confederate Veterans Texas
http://scvtexas.org/
Since this was a total war fought only on American soil, I also count the civilians, mostly in the South, who died of starvation, exposure, and epidemics during and immediately following the war.
But you’re right. 700,000 battlefield casualties is not millions.
As an FYI, and it shouldn't matter, I was born in the south, raised by racist southern parents while living in the south and north; have since lived all over the US. My German, Scottish, and Irish ancestors can be traced back to the 1700s in the Ohio River Valley, later parts of the family to refugees from Poland and Lithuania. I am a conservative, a US Navy veteran, and I place myself as American first. No hyphenation, no dual loyalties, just American, right-or-wrong.
Whatever...
This is the US where flying the US flag should be celebrated. The Confederate flag, in any form, is no different than flying the Nazi flag or Islamic flag.
Seriously GFY
Like this one?
And what’s with all the posters who cite their ancestors’ Confederate service as an argument that therefore their cause (and flag) is something to be proud of?
If your great-granddaddy fought for the Nazis, would you be proud of that flag, and if so, why? It’s a legitimate question — they were trying to conquer the United States, and they lost, too.
Whatever.
Just because your parents were racists doesn't mean the Confederate flag connotes racism; haven't you been reading the replies back to you?
You want to stifle not only Free Speech but the exercise of it too.
Leave this forum scumbag!
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