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At a time when our country is at war, wearing Confederate flag imprinted shirts is divisive and in my opinion plain stupid. About on par with the school teacher in Wisconsin who considers saying the pledge 'jingoistic'. Two peas in a pod. We can get back to those satisfying disagreements over the Civil War after we've won this one.

At a time when our country is at war, wearing Confederate flag imprinted shirts is divisive and in my opinion plain stupid.

Come on. As we have seen recently in Amherst, Massachusetts, Madison, Wisconsin, and countless other places, people will find just about anything "divisive" whether the country's at war or not. The battle flag of the Confederacy is a proud emblem of our region. As a symbol of legitimate states' rights, it must be defended -- both from the PC crowd who wish to ban it and the racist clods who wish to appropriate it.

The promoters of "New History" are hard at work these days to alter our collective understanding of the past as it truly was. The Southern banner (in all its various versions) simply must not disappear. To deny its legitimate place in our culture is essentially to deny that (1) the Southern states were in their rights to withdraw from the union, and (2) the war waged against them is one of the most stunning outrages of history. And neither of those facts must ever be denied.

At every other time when our country has been at war since 1865, Southerners have taken the ANV battleflag to war with them while they fought for the US. My uncles did it in WWII and Korea, my cousins who were old enough for Vietnam did too.

Right now, young Southerners are getting their battleflag tattoos in anticipation of serving in this war. It's a Southern tradition. It's the personal battleflag we take with us. Are you going to support the politically correct politicians in the "new army" that Clinton set up when they want to exclude our boys from service?

Now, that would be divisive.

Your comparing wearing a T-shirt to refusing to say the Pledge of Allegience, man get a grip. I bet if you asked every one of those kids to say the Pledge, none of them would hesitate. Then ask the whole class to recite it & see which ones refused, I bet I could give you preview of the ones who would refuse and their not the ones wearing the Rebel flag t-shirts.