Quote:As far as I know, the flag flies over a memorial to the confederate soldiers lost during the war.  The "offense" that people take from that is because the Civil War was "about slavery" and thus the Confederate Flag is "racist" and "offensive".  No actual reference or news reports give a really honest answer,

 

To give you an answer, yes the flag flies (flew) over a burial ground and memorial of those that were lost during the Civil War.

 

The PC police are out in force, and want to eradicate our nation's history.  People on fringe groups are desecrating memorials and want our history effectively "erased".  I wonder which side of the political aisle they are on?

Well, I would agree that there is too much focus on what the flag now represents.  I've even heard it compared to the Nazi flag.  Yeah, slavery is evil, but systematic genocide - that's REALLY evil.  There's an element of hyperbole to the meaning of the battle cross that manifests a hysteria I usually see out of the other political wing in this country

 

There is precedent to our nation honoring the dead in a manner customary with their beliefs.  In the 70s, Project Azorian was an attempt to raise a Russian submarine from the bottom of the Pacific, an interesting story in it's own right.  The salvage mission recovered 6 Russian crewmembers which were given a full burial-at-sea ceremony with the USSR flag and national anthem, all sanctioned by the US government.  That would be the same US government that called them "The Evil Empire" not a decade later, but there were our troops on video, saluting in the shadow of hammer and sickle.

 

Y'know what?  It was the right thing to do.  You honor a country's dead with the flag they died under.  Unless of course, you live in Germany....

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