The Confederate Flag Flap
To fly it or not to fly it…That is the question that I ask of thee. Every 4 years the subject comes up and every 4 years, stupid stuff is said. Like death and taxes, you can bank on that. What can not be denied is that the Confederate Flag is an historic symbol of the South. What it symbolizes is where the arguements erupt.
The Confederate Flag was the battle flag or “rebel flag” that flew during the Civil War. To many Southerners, it is a symbol of their history, the good the bad and the ugly. Many southerners feel that the flag is an unnecessary reminder of slavery and segregation. I am sure that the subject is not one that is thought about until the rest of the country gets involved.
He Lost a War and Won Immortality by Louis Redmond, seems to sum up my feelings:
Even among the free, it is not always easy to live together. There came a time, less than a hundred years ago, when the people of this country disagreed so bitterly among themselves that some of them felt they could not go on living with the rest.
A test of arms was made to decide whether Americans should remain one nation or become two. The armies of those who believed in two nations were led by a man named Robert E. Lee.
What about Lee? What kind of man was he who nearly split the history of the United States down the middle and made two separate books of it?
They say you had to see him to believe that a man so fine could exist. He was handsome. He was clever. He was brave. He was gentle. He was generous and charming, noble and modest, admired and beloved. He had never failed at anything in his upright soldier’s life. He was a born winner, this Robert E. Lee. Except for once. In the greatest contest of his life, in the war between the South and the North, Robert E. Lee lost.
Now there were men who came with smoldering eyes to Lee and said: “Let’s not accept this result as final. Let’s keep our anger alive. Let’s be grim and unconvinced, and wear our bitterness like a medal. You can be our leader in this.”
But Lee shook his head at those men. “Abandon your animosities,” he said, “and make your sons Americans.”
And what did he do himself when his war was lost? He took a job as president of a tiny college, with forty students and four professors, at a salary of $1500 a year. He had commanded thousands of young men in battle. Now he wanted to prepare a few hundred of them for the duties of peace. So the countrymen of Robert E. Lee saw how a born winner loses, and it seemed to them that in defeat he won his most lasting victory.
January 19, 2008 - 11:23 AM on January 19th, 2008
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January 20, 2008 - 01:34 PM on January 20th, 2008
Noyhing as all wrong with the confederate flag its just a bunch of stupid muleheads are wanting to force their rediculous ideas on us all