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Updated: Mon 5:07 PM, Jul 20, 2015
Protestors showed up at the Lenoir County Courthouse this afternoon, as county commissioners could decide to keep the Confederate flag from flying one day each year.
At least one county commissioner says they should discontinue flying the flag on Confederate Memorial Day.
Commissioners are holding a regular meeting Monday evening. While the flag issue is not on the agenda, it could still be discussed ...
http://www.witn.com/home/headlines/Commissioners-to-discuss-Confederate-Flag-Day-317515321.html
dieter
(94 posts)Confederates are treasonous. Every display of the Confederate flag is a symbol of treason. Every display of the Confederate flag is about treason and how Confederates wished to overthrow the USA. You Confederates were awful, horrible, treasonous people.
0rganism
(23,978 posts)of course it is.
what was i thinking?
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)the South the right to celebrate it's heritage, y'see, and wasn't gonna let em fly their special heritage flag so, y'know, they all packed up a nice picnic lunch and hitched up the wagons and, um, rode peacefully in circles around Fort Sumner until, uh, the goddamn Yankees sent all these outside agitator carpet-baggers down to stir up trouble and so there's a confederate memorial day to remember how nice everything was before that
2banon
(7,321 posts)just curious..