We need a real-time streaming Cam on the flag - call it the Shame Cam.
I hear it's not even the correct flag. It's the confederate army war flag or some such shit.
Dopey rednecks can't even get the right racist offensive flag.
Shesh - on how many forum thread's do I have to post it? The flag pictured flying over the Confederate memorial to their Civil War dead - which actually is on state government property - is not the Stars & Bars battle flag - it is the Confederate Naval ensign. All Confederate flags manufactured in modern times use this ensign. You want to put it in the Smithsonian fine by me, the flag and symbol is owned by the United States government, duly surrendered to it in April 1865 at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, ending the illegal Confederate States of America.
It used to fly over the state capital building, however, in an agreement between the state legislature and the Black community, to end their boycott activities against South Carolina tourism for flying the flag from the state capital, it was removed from that building, but agreed it could fly over the monument honoring Confederate dead on state property.
It isn't the only place south of the Mason-Dixon Line where a Confederate flag flies over cemeteries or museum's. In Richmond, Virginia, at the "White House Of The Confederacy" that flag flies 24/7/365. The U.S. flag doesn't fly over that downtown museum, despite the fact that Abraham Lincoln after General Lee abandoned the Petersburg - Richmond battlefront - entered the city personally, and sat in Jefferson Davis office chair. That museum contains General Lee's original field tent; uniform; pistol; boots; and saddle. It also contains the uniform General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was wearing when he was shot mortally by his own pickets at night after the Chancellorsville Battle. The bloodstains are sill visible as is the bullet hole from the mini-ball that hit him. Over South Carolina's memorial to their Civil War dead, that Confederate flag is appropriate - flying it over the Peterson House in Washington, D.C., very inappropriate. The American Civil War was a long, long time ago, we are a different country - that old symbolic flag represent's a country which was not legitimate, and ceased to exist in 1865, end of story.
Albert Woodson (1848-1956) last known Union Army veteran of the Civil War. Was a drummer boy.
James Hard ( 1843-1953) last known Union Army combat veteran of the Civil War.
Pleasant Crump (1847-1951) last known Confederate Army veteran of the Civil War. Also a musician, on the battlefield's like Woodson, but not in combat. The last surviving Confederate soldier who engaged in combat, is claimed by several - but there are no records to substantiate it.
All three men were white, so nobody can trace roots back to slavery, of any dead Confederate soldier, thus, the Confederate flag flying over that memorial in Charleston, S.C., shouldn't upset anybody. The South Carolina Black community agreed to it.
BTW, the majority of the dead left behind at Gettysburg, who were Confederate's, the last battle fought on Union territory, instead of the disputed Confederate territory of the war, were located, identified, and recovered, with the majority of them being transferred to Confederate War cemeteries in Richmond, Virginia, Raleigh, North Carolina, and yes Charleston, S.C. About 1,000 who were interred, including a brave Confederate General, shot and killed on Cemetery Hill in the closing moments of the battle, were buried in the Soldiers Cemetery at Gettysburg, and remain there. Union soldiers were so moved by the Confederate General's bravery in battle, they buried him themselves on Cemetery Ridge, in their lines, and his body was disinterred and moved to the Confederate section, which isn't marked, at Gettysburg. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is directed at the memory of Union veteran's of that battle only.
Get a life - that flag over the memorial in Charleston, S.C. has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with some crazy murdering people in a Black church in the same city, anymore than the American flag flying over the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut motivated that crazy to murder 27 1st and 2nd grade children.......that the Black community consider's the flag distasteful is actually rather funny, considering that they allow their male children, adults and entertainers, to walk around in public with jeans down to their knees, and their underwear covering their butts in public - which the dummies don't know is a jailhouse symbol advertising that the person appearing that way is soliciting homosexual advances...........I find that distasteful - but see it every day. If they put as much effort into raising their offspring with respect for legitimate authority and value for education, as they do in crying foul over the least little imagined snub by anybody, America, and that culture, would be in much better shape today. That Confederate Flag was flying over that memorial in Charleston, S.C., the day before the church shootings - suddenly - the Black community finds it offensive? Again I say - get a life..................
