Posted on 07/08/2015 5:18:17 AM PDT by GIdget2004
After just two minutes of floor debate late Tuesday evening, the House passed a measure to prohibit the display of Confederate flags on graves in federal cemeteries.
Despite the lack of fanfare, the vote marked the House's first entry into the debate over removing the Confederate flag from federal property that went beyond codifying already established policies.
Rep. Jared Huffman's (D-Calif.) amendment to the 2016 Interior Department spending bill seeks to end a policy that allows a temporary display of the flag in cemeteries under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service. It sailed through on a voice vote after minimal discussion on the House floor that encountered no opposition.
National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis issued a directive in 2010 that allows national cemeteries which commemorate a designated Confederate Memorial Day to decorate the graves of Civil War veterans with small Confederate flags. The directive states that decorative flags must be removed "as soon as possible" once the Confederate Memorial Day is over.
"We can honor that history without celebrating the Confederate flag and all of the dreadful things that it symbolizes," Huffman said.
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In Memphis there are already demands to have Nathan Bedford Forrest dug up and removed from the spot where he is buried. If Forrest, why not all Confederate soldiers?
The people who rail against the battle flag don’t know what the official flag of the Confederate States (the real “stars and bars”) looks like...so it is still safe to put that on Confederate veterans’ graves on Memorial Day.
did they ban other controversial flags like the homosexual flags? apparently there is more than one type.
They did not vote to only allow the USA flag, just to silence one particular flag.
Oh...okay...your empty rhetoric sure says a lot. Yawn.
Maybe you will be the first to point out what part of it is untrue.
bkmk
Time to make your voices heard, not just in the South but from anyone believing this flag issue is but another way to control the masses.
The current national flag of the Confederacy, adopted in March 1865 does have the St Andrews Cross emblem in the upper right hand corner on a field of white with a broad red strip on the other end of the flag. The Stars and Bars was the first national flag that was replaced with the Stainless Banner later.
The Confederates who died at First Manassas or at Fort Donelson never saw the battle flag.
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