[BootsOnTheGround]

"Calling Robert E. Lee a traitor is very silly. He was a loyal Virginian who kept honor by not betraying his own people."

Every traitor has GREAT excuses. They are still traitors.

Anyone who shoots or has shot at the AMERICAN flag has earned my contempt.

[ImAmerican]

So, You must hate England, Spain, France, Japan, Korea, Isreal,Vietnam,Russia, China,Italy, And the F--ing Germans

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Such "contempt" for Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Texas is dishonorable, even given that it is rooted in pure ignorance.

[TexConfederate1861]

Just because the Yankees were flying the flag, doens't mean they were right. And Robert E. Lee served that flag loyally, until those that claimed it, perverted it's meaning.

Quit wrapping yourself in the flag, and look at facts.

[Ruadh]

But the Confederate Battle Flag is an American flag, too. Are you saying you have contempt for both sides in that war?

[Polybius]

Anyone who shoots or has shot at the AMERICAN flag has earned my contempt.

The parents of William Tecumseh Sherman would have disagreed with you.

You may also want to consider where the names "Fort Benning" and "Fort Bragg" and U.S.S. Stonewall Jackson came from.

Your appeal to regional hate-mongering had gone out of style in America by the time the veterans of both North and South gathered together for the 50th anniversary of Gettysburg in 1913.

"Comrades and friends, these splendid statues of marble and granite and bronze shall finally crumble to dust, and in the ages to come, will perhaps be forgotten, but the spirit that has called this great assembly of our people together, on this field, shall live for ever." --------Dr. Nathaniel D. Cox, July 2, 1913

[philetus]

Shoot at the Red, White, and Blue and I spit on you "

Are you a girl or a girlyman?
I can't believe a grown man would go around spitting on people, even if they did shoot at the Red, White, and Blue.
Most men would shoot back.