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Fort Sumter nixes all Confederate flags, makes decision sans historian
The Washington Examiner ^ | July 2, 2015 | Barbara Boland

Posted on 07/02/2015 11:39:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)

The flags of the Confederacy that flew high over Fort Sumter, the site where the first shots of the Civil War were fired, have been taken down from the historic site.

The decision to remove the flags came from a directive by National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis in Washington, D.C. which reads: "Confederate flags shall not be flown in units of the National Park system and related sites with the exception of specific circumstances where the flags provide historic context. ... All superintendents and program managers should evaluate how Confederate flags are used ... and remove the flags where appropriate." "Shall not be flown" is the only text that appears in bold in the letter.

The site of the Civil War's first battle is clearly a "historic" one, but according to a Fort Sumter spokesperson, it doesn't qualify as a place where "flags provide historical context," local WMBF News reported....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: confederateflag; dixie; historians; history; obama; purge; southcarolina
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To: Rebelbase

I think it has been for a while,


41 posted on 07/03/2015 5:55:41 AM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: Lumper20

If it is any comfort, they aren’t teaching anyone much of anything. Many of my children’s friends are Hispanic or Arab, and I’m surprised to hear the same racist/sexist jokes that were making the rounds thirty years ago. These foreigners didn’t come here to buy into the progressive agenda (and my wife is one of them).


42 posted on 07/03/2015 5:55:43 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Most southerners never thought of race at all when we beheld the Confederate flag, we felt pride in our distinct culture, which for us was not exclusive of southern blacks. It was perhaps exclusive of recently arrived northerners of any shade, unless they bought us a beer or something.

We adored Charley Pride for Pete’s sake.

Everyone opposed to the flag is assuming they can read minds, and if they truly could, there would be no flag flap.


43 posted on 07/03/2015 5:56:04 AM PDT by wayoverontheright
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Next thing you will hear, though it may take a few years, is that Fort Sumter is nixed.


44 posted on 07/03/2015 6:22:27 AM PDT by sport
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Jonathan Jarvis is a good little Commie.

He does whatever ValJar tells him to.

With our property.


45 posted on 07/03/2015 6:23:55 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What next? Bubba Watson covering the rebel flag on the General Lee?


46 posted on 07/03/2015 6:26:24 AM PDT by Ronald_Magnus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; SWAMPSNIPER

Okay, Swamsniper et al— what’s going on in St. Augustine at the oldest fort in America which was Spanish colonial, and under many flags including the CSA?


47 posted on 07/03/2015 6:35:43 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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48 posted on 07/03/2015 7:18:24 AM PDT by Ronald_Magnus
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To: John S Mosby

No word yet.


49 posted on 07/03/2015 8:39:36 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: sten
If they’ve been taken down due to some being offended, then we can expect them to remove all those fag ‘pride’ flags... right?

If Roof had posed with a fag flag, the Charleston shootings would just have been a footnote. "Move along, nothing to see here."

50 posted on 07/03/2015 11:23:06 AM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate. [URL=http://media.photobucket.com/user/currencyjunkie/me)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Well the Confederate flag will be flying at our house tomorrow. Right next to the Gadsden. We are kind of hoping ISIS stops by so we can play Rebels and Jihadi’s. :-)


51 posted on 07/03/2015 12:01:01 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The liberal's say the want the Confederate flag to be placed in a museum. Guess what Fort Sumter is - a museum
52 posted on 07/04/2015 6:39:55 PM PDT by Aquamarine
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