Posted on 03/07/2016 2:38:12 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
GETTYSBURG, PA (WHTM/CNN) - Tensions ran high during a Confederate flag rally in Pennsylvania this weekend.
A Southern heritage group held what it calls Confederate Flag Day in Gettysburg, PA, but there were plenty of vocal opponents to the event.
The flag has 13 stars, three stripes and two very different meanings.
The refrain is familiar. Supporters such Mark Landree, executive director of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, says it's about history. Opponents like Christina Hansen only see hate.
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How I despise these people.
The Confederate Battle Flag I own was bought at Gettysburg.
Its Gettysburg for crying out loud.
‘These people are nuts.
BTW that is probably the most beautiful area in PA and all around Lancaster county.
We were there for Christmas some time ago and the town looked like a Charles Dickens town in a book
If you ever get the chance, you must do Gettysburg on horseback. You can see the battlefield as the generals saw it. There are several groups which do battlefield tours on horseback. We will be doing that again.
You and me both, RiBP, you and me both. I just read an article purporting to be about the emerging “authoritarian” strain on the right/in the GOPe, but everytime we are minding our own business and celebrating or supporting our own principles/priorities/etc, it’s always the left who just has to try to shut us down. We don’t go try to break up Black Panther or Black Lies Matter rallies, the left’s slut walks and sodomite parades (which they increasingly look for more ways to shove in our faces and the faces of our children), but they just can’t leave us alone, they go so far as to suppress speech from the right, look at the disruptors at Trump rallies, when have we have ever done this kind of thing to their candidates? They are contemptible, tyrannical, and totalitayarian, and we on the right get called “authoritarian”?
It’s a flag, social justice warriors! It can’t hurt you!
No more confederate uniforms at Civil War Re-enactments. /s
We even have some of these leftist nutjobs, and it’s people in positions of authority or at least with a platform and a megaphone supplied by the “normal” left, calling for us to be jailed as “climate change deniers”. But we’re the authoritarians./s
The Civil War, like the Holocaust, never happened! /s
We will be there tomorrow and can’t wait. Have wanted to visit Gettysburg for many years and am finally going to fulfill a long held wish. God bless both sides who fought and sacrificed for their beliefs. Wonder how many today would do the same?
I think you should have near perfect weather tomorrow.
The only proper response to this is "Stuff it, lady."
I’ve done the ten mile walking your with a battlefield historian. On horseback sounds awesome
Wow! My wife is both a civil war buf and an equestrian. You just gave me a qreat vacation idea.
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There are several licensed tour operators but I can vouch for this one. They did an amazing job. We did a 2 hour tour last year and would like to do a longer 3 or 4 hour tour next time. Few people can say they have seen Gettysburg as Robert E Lee saw it.
And I think you need to book in advance as they fill up.
Exactly !
Typical common Core rewrite of history about a 'pillow fight'
that got out of control - denying all history.
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