MISSISSIPPI PINGThe cemeteries affected are the Andersonville and Vicksburg cemeteries in Georgia and Mississippi.
Burying history.
House moves to ban Confederate flag in federal cemeteries
Posted on 07/08/2015 5:42:33 PM PDT by markomalley
The House has voted to ban the display of Confederate flags at historic federal cemeteries in the deep South.
The low-profile move came Tuesday evening after a brief debate on a measure funding the National Park Service, which maintains 14 national cemeteries, most of which contain graves of Civil War soldiers.
The proposal by Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., added language to block the Park Service from allowing private groups to decorate the graves of Southern soldiers with Confederate flags in states that commemorate Confederate Memorial Day. The cemeteries affected are the Andersonville and Vicksburg cemeteries in Georgia and Mississippi.
“The American Civil War was fought, in Abraham Lincoln’s words, to ‘save the last best hope of Earth,'” Huffman said in a debate in which he was the only speaker. “We can honor that history without celebrating the Confederate flag and all of the dreadful things that it symbolizes.”
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Are there any flags of any other foreign nations in our cemeteries? Are they being removed as well?
I’m not sure it’s legal since Confederate veterans and war dead were granted full status as American soldiers. Its reasonable to assume that the flag would gain at least some protection through that.
This is a disgrace.
Exactly.
This country is a disgrace.
I want to see the names of the people who voted for this.
This shiite has to stop. Right now. What is the House doing? Who sponsored this idiotic bill. The families should be outraged. There are, for instance, very famous CSA families with descendents in Arlington plots. And THEY get flags— all the time.
People should really read up on the legislative history of how Confederate war vets and dead were included as American military with full benefits and honors as Union / American soldiers.
(Scroll to “Congressional Support for Confederate Soldiers”)
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/04/03/confederate-soldiers-american-veterans-by-act-of-congress/
I don’t think today’s action is legal not to mention the fact that it’s congress acting completely on its own without any input from the American people.
MISSISSIPPI PINGBurying history.
House moves to ban Confederate flag in federal cemeteries
How would a state have any say in a federal cemetery? Bueler? Bueler?
Me too
The Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War supports the display of the confederate battle flag and even actively engages in placing the flag at the graves of Confederate dead.
As long as displays of images of Fidel or Che in public buildings are felonies I would agree with this.
The Southern reps need to band together, this is absurdity. Paparazzo was right, what business is it of California and New York to go after Southern history?
States should ignore this like they should about the ruling over marriage. Other states ignore immigration and drug laws so why not us?
Every damn Representative who is responsible for this disgusting act of gross cowardice should be run out of office in the next election. But they won’t we have only cowards and black racists left apparently.
And prior to the Civil War, I suppose the Stars and Stripes represented slavery, didn’t it?
I think Rush is onto something. There’s a natural progression here to the current US flag.
So the real question has to do with honesty about the history of our nation, and not about trying to excise parts of it with symbolic gestures that don’t speak to reality but to fantasy.
WHY THE REGIME PICKED ON THE CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAG AND NOT ROOF’S MANIFESTO
Because it was under threat of questioning and possible impeachment proceedings by its so called political opposition the regime needed to defer or stop any movement toward this. It was necessary to use a political device usually atrributed to Saul Alinsky but used by the nazi and commie’s like Stalin with the “Kulacks” through racial division. It created persons engaged in felonious assults on authority who were black youths into; “Victims of an evil society” (thus approving their actions) out of whole cloth.
The regime began with the Zimmerman case which resulted in a series of assults by black youths on completely innocent whites,”hispanics”, and asians who were either targeted or wandered near or through black gang infested areas. The perpetators excuse; The reported “cold blood killing of Treyvon Martin because he was black”
It led to a score or more of deaths and serious injuries which were treated as local news, ignored, and forgotten. And it was met with silence while this was happening. Neither the locqatious POTUS or his political opposition uttered as much as a “Now!,Now! or a “tsk!,tsk!”.
Those killings were referenced by the Charleston Church massacre perpetrator in his crazed manifesto.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3302529/posts
Naturally when it was discovered that mention of those score of murders were used in this nut cases’s “manifesto” the reaction was....“Well we can’t let that out. Oh ! His face book has him holding a Confederate battle flag, (Which to many is simply an ensign of protest and rebellion), that must be his excuse; “The Confederates made him do this horrible act ! Let’s get them !” Well they’re doing a good job of perverting what that battle flag’s used for at the same time ignoring the regimes complicity in engendering those previous racial incidents.
I do not believe there are any Confederate Soliders buried at Andersonville or Vicksburg National Cemetaries. At Vicksburg, they are buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery which is owned by the City.
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