Confederate flag flown in WWII!

[Todd Feinman]

Your understanding is incorrect. It was about racism and white supremacy. Drop the blinders, please.

I for one am tired of hearing about the confederate battle flag. It is offensive to so many people. Get over it. take 'em down.

 

[Lucius]

Eugene Sledge mentions it in With The Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa.

Scaeva, that is one of the, if not the most compelling first-hand account of 20th century warfare.

 

[Scaeva]

Scaeva, that is one of the, if not the most compelling first-hand account of 20th century warfare.

Absolutely agree. I'd go further and say it was probably *the* single best memoir by an enlisted man to come out of the Second World War.

 

[Michael Rolls]

I for one am tired of hearing about the confederate battle flag. It is offensive to so many people. Get over it. take 'em down.

There are an enormous number of things (and seemingly growing in number every day) that are offensive to many people. Who is to decide what is too offensive to be allowed?
Mike

 

[Jax Historian]

There are an enormous number of things (and seemingly growing in number every day) that are offensive to many people. Who is to decide what is too offensive to be allowed?
Mike

Because the United Sates is a democracy, that would be the majority of the voters, at least when the flag is on public property.

 

[Todd Feinman]

There are an enormous number of things (and seemingly growing in number every day) that are offensive to many people. Who is to decide what is too offensive to be allowed?
Mike

I don't know. Perhaps the situation is similar to Germany? Fathers and grandfathers fought in WWII, perhaps heroically, they loved their familes too.
https://www.vox.com/world/2017/8/16/16152088/nazi-swastikas-germany-charlottesville

 

[royal744]

Scaeva, that is one of the, if not the most compelling first-hand account of 20th century warfare.

I agree. It brought the full horror of war against the Japanese front and center.

 

[notgivenaway]

Did the US army person come from the South? I suspect it was because of this, or he just did it for the hell of it.

Or thought he could get away with it before some high-ranking officer saw it, and he would get busted for not following protocol.

It would be like some proud Scottish officer in Normandy temporarily hoisting a St. Andrew's Cross before he replaced it with a Union flag.

 

[royal744]

Absolutely agree. I'd go further and say it was probably *the* single best memoir by an enlisted man to come out of the Second World War.

Hero-worship of those who fought for the preservation of slavery in America is about as offensive as one can be. Worse, placing statues dedicated to the soldiers who tried their best to kill American soldiers on public property and in parks where everyone is daily confronted by them is pretty bad. If it were up to me, I would dynamite all of them.

 

[artistauthor]

This of course before the Confederate flag("Stars and Bars") was more or less adopted by the likes of the White Citizens Council( although an admitted segregationist James Carter Senior- father of future US President Jimmy Carter bravely and wisely refused to have anything to do with the WCC or kindred groups!) and the Klan, thus taking on the same racist connotations associated with say, the Hakenkreuz( crooked cross- ie swastika) or the totalitarianism of the Hammer and Sickle!


Terry