Michigan returns Confederate flag to Fredericksburg

Wash Times ^ | 31 August 2003 | Judith Person

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Today, Michigan will return to Virginia its spoils of war -- the Civil War, that is.

About 50 representatives of the state of Michigan will turn over to Virginia officials a Confederate First National flag -- known as the "Stars and Bars" -- that was plundered by Union troops during the Battle of Fredericksburg more than 140 years ago.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

BTTT!

[Agnes Heep]

"... This is part of the healing."

If they haven't healed by now, they never will!

[July 4th]

South postpones rising again for yet another year

[sphinx]

Ordinarily, my feeling about captured flags is "fairly won, fairly kept." But if Michigan has nothing better to do with it than dump it in a box in an attic, might as well give it back. Provided, of course, that the folks at Fredericksburg will display it properly.