[RedBean]

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Like it or not, those soldiers died to create the country that we have now, the United States of America. They should be honored with our flag.


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They didn't die to create the country you have now. They died fighting *for* the CSA *against* the Union, for a cause they believed in, whether it was right or wrong.

Granted, everyone would agree we're glad it turned out the way it did, and not agree with the reasons of the war, but just like the current climate today, disagreeing with the reason is never cause not to support or honor the troops.

They went into battle under the Navy Jack, for the Navy Jack, and against the Stars and Stripes. To say they would be honored having an enemy flag flown over them just as the happenstance of the resulting outcome years after they died is akin to me pledging we fly the flag of the North Vietnamese at the Vietnam Memorial in Washington to honor those war dead because they "fought to create North Vietnam".

After all, that was the resultant outcome, they fought and spilled blood and as a result we have communist North Vietnam.

That just ain't good logic, hoss.

And I sure as hell ain't taking down the Navy Jack and being stripped of the ability to honor soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice 150 years ago just because some backwoods inbred racist hate groups decided they liked the colors so much they would drape it on the back of their pickups and try to make it a symbol of their efforts in hopes some weak minded naive northerners would fall for it and then confuse the symbol as a racist one.