That is the way it was meant to be. If you look at any flag you see and hear
what the men did and died for that flag.. That is what the flag should
represent. A reminder to all of how good, brave people who died that shouldn't
of had to die, but because of the government and it's politics....
Beth Carr ...
"Sears, Dirk J" <SearsDJ(a)corning.com> on 02/29/2000 12:03:39 PM
To: "'Campbell-L(a)genealogy.org'" <Campbell-L(a)genealogy.org>
cc: (bcc: Beth Carr/US/A.M.BEST)
Subject: The Confederate Flag
Fellow Clansmen,
We in the "North" shouldn't think more highly of ourselves than we ought
about the "South" and the Confederate flag. The North has blood on it's
hands, too. Slavery, if not as prevalent up north, was not too far behind.
Sorry, that's the truth of it. There were more issues at stake during the
War between the States than just slavery. Things like states rights and emminent
domain to name a couple. The sad thing is that brave men
of the same blood...kith and kin...fought and died against one another because
GOVERNMENTS couldn't agree. The Confederate flag bloody
well SHOULD make people uncomfortable. It makes me sick that men of honor on
BOTH sides paid the ultimate price...as is the case with
all war. The Confederate flag does not, however, offend me. The bloodshed does.
None of us were there during those dark years, and the history
books have painted a hopelesy biased picture of the conflict to the detriment of
the South in most cases. If it's the flying of a flag...which is a very
REAL piece of history...that offends: SHAME ON US that we forget how much it
cost to have the choice to fly that flag. Let it remind, rather, that
unless we never forget the pain and suffering GOVERNMENTS have caused humanity,
we will have it to look forward to again. When I see the Confederate flag, I
think, "Brave men....all." He that has ears to hear, let him hear.
All the best,
Dirk Sears-Campbell