We read:
"Members of a local Sons of Confederate Veterans group took the flag down late Monday, even as the City Council was passing a resolution asking for the flag's removal.
Anderson County commissioners voted 3-2 last week to fly the First National Flag for Confederate History and Heritage Month at the request of the local SCV.
Many in the packed crowd of 60 in City Hall leaped to their feet when Mayor Bob Herrington announced, "The flag is down!"
He and council members had criticized the flag as divisive and bad for business. Herrington said he supports studying history but that the national flag should not fly over the courthouse because "That is not our government."
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Some history may not be referred to -- let alone honored
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If we continue on this path we will fight the war over again, mark my words.
Those who fail to learn from history...
Why did the members back down? Don't they understand that whenever you back down you only invite the enemy to attack again?
Texas is part of the South, it's our history, it's our heritage, if you don't want to see the confederate flag, move to New York!
Harmony and peace my ass, if the progressives want war, bring it on!
The mayor and city council should be sent to clean up the big mess made by illegal aliens
Herrington said he supports studying history but that the national flag should not fly over the courthouse because "That is not our government."
He actually makes a good point. Instead of flying it over the courthouse, they should provide a public place to fly it along side other historical flags the flew throughout this nation's history. It's not about a minority of people being "disrespected" by a specific flag, but about respecting that this flag was part of United States history and its meaning, implications, and ultimate fate should never be forgotten.
Does that include any of the flags pre 1776?
It depends on what is the purpose of the display.
If it is just the history of flags of the United States the nation, then no.
If it is a display of the history of all United States flags including those that led up to its inception, then yes.
If it is a history of all flags that represent every governing nation that ever flew over what is now U.S. soil, then yes.
It would make a very interesting exhibition to see all the various flags of all the nations and other "factions" who've had any effective territorial control over parts of North America, and where. Even within there "entities" there would be different flags, eg. Britain and the US itself.
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