Quote: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....

 

You have me interested in Project Azorian now.

 

I do agree with you that you honor a country's dead with the flag that they died under.  While the CSoA was never actually a country, I believe that the same precedence should be true as well.

 

Sadly, you have many including politicians that are calling for the removal of other monuments and memorials, even though they are part of our nation's history.  Some even go so far as to say that a flag and/or memorial is "offensive".  It's the current PC or "popular" thing to do.

 

This is happening not only with Civil War monuments, but also other things related to religion.

 

I personally don't have an issue with maintaining Civil War monuments and memorials with my dime as a tax payer.

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