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Thread ID: 18502 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2005-06-02
2005-06-02 22:46 | User Profile
Someone needs a lesson in history
Dear Editor:
While at the Danville cemetery on Memorial Day, I drove down to where the soldiers of the War Between the States were buried. If my count is right, I counted 67 graves of the Confederates buried there. And what do you suppose I found? Each Confederate grave had an American flag at each head stone.
To my surprise I thought, this is like putting the Nazi flag at the headstones of the U.S. soldiers who died in the European theater in World War II. Or like the Japanese flag flying at each headstone of the Americans who died in the Pacific theater. I imagine that each Confederate body buried there has turned over in his grave in protest.
Those responsible for placing the Stars and Stripes at the headstones of these Southern soldiers must be either ignorant of history or just plain dumb. It would be nice to see this mistake corrected in the future. This mistake was made by someone who doesn't know that these soldiers fought for a different country under a different flag. Someone badly needs a lesson in history.
Horace L. Tarkington Danville
Copyright The Advocate-Messenger 2005
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2005-06-02 22:54 | User Profile
[QUOTE] this is like putting the Nazi flag at the headstones of the U.S. soldiers who died in the European theater in World War II. [/QUOTE]Well said.
At the least they rate a Virginia State Flag, for the soil they died defending under their leader, a loyal Virginian, General Robert Edward Lee.
[QUOTE=confederate_commando]Someone needs a lesson in history
Dear Editor:
While at the Danville cemetery on Memorial Day, I drove down to where the soldiers of the War Between the States were buried. If my count is right, I counted 67 graves of the Confederates buried there. And what do you suppose I found? Each Confederate grave had an American flag at each head stone.
To my surprise I thought, this is like putting the Nazi flag at the headstones of the U.S. soldiers who died in the European theater in World War II. Or like the Japanese flag flying at each headstone of the Americans who died in the Pacific theater. I imagine that each Confederate body buried there has turned over in his grave in protest.
Those responsible for placing the Stars and Stripes at the headstones of these Southern soldiers must be either ignorant of history or just plain dumb. It would be nice to see this mistake corrected in the future. This mistake was made by someone who doesn't know that these soldiers fought for a different country under a different flag. Someone badly needs a lesson in history.
Horace L. Tarkington Danville
Copyright The Advocate-Messenger 2005
[url="http://www.amnews.com/public_html/?module=displaystory&story_id=14056&format=html"]http://www.amnews.com/public_html/?module=displaystory&story_id=14056&format=html[/url][/QUOTE]