House votes to ban Confederate flags at federal cemeteries [and in federal gift shops]

The Hill ^ | 07/08/2015 | Cristina Marcos

[Verginius Rufus]

In Memphis there are already demands to have Nathan Bedford Forrest dug up and removed from the spot where he is buried. If Forrest, why not all Confederate soldiers?

[Verginius Rufus]

The people who rail against the battle flag don’t know what the official flag of the Confederate States (the real “stars and bars”) looks like...so it is still safe to put that on Confederate veterans’ graves on Memorial Day.

[longtermmemmory]

did they ban other controversial flags like the homosexual flags? apparently there is more than one type.

[longtermmemmory]

They did not vote to only allow the USA flag, just to silence one particular flag.

[4yearlurker]

Oh...okay...your empty rhetoric sure says a lot. Yawn.

[Norm Lenhart]

Maybe you will be the first to point out what part of it is untrue.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

bkmk

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

I just heard on WSB radio there will be a vote to rescind this regulation this afternoon 7/9). Apparently many Southern Reps got an earful last night.
The dems were said to be stunned. Heh-heh-heh!!!!

Time to make your voices heard, not just in the South but from anyone believing this flag issue is but another way to control the masses.

[armydawg505]

The current national flag of the Confederacy, adopted in March 1865 does have the St Andrews Cross emblem in the upper right hand corner on a field of white with a broad red strip on the other end of the flag. The Stars and Bars was the first national flag that was replaced with the Stainless Banner later.

[Verginius Rufus]

I hear the "stars & bars" (3 bars, 2 red and 1 white, and a blue field with 7 stars) called "the first national" flag...obviously to distinguish it from later versions.

The Confederates who died at First Manassas or at Fort Donelson never saw the battle flag.