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Originally Posted by Mickedamouse24
By Act of US Congress! All Confederate Soldiers that fought in the Civil War were deemed Veterans of the United States! Win or Lose! They deserve the respect accorded them by the United States Congress! And you can stick your "snowflake!" regimen where the sun don't shine! Read history and you may learn something!!!
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I suggest YOU start doing some reading...so you don't appear so ignorant.
Then again, I'm not sure you have enough time left...for that to ever happen.
While it's true that the traitors were finally allowed benefits as veterans (primarily because some served in the Spanish American War)...there's a LOT more to that story.
Read the link and you might learn something.
Confederate Soldiers Are Considered U.S. Veterans Under Federal Law-Truth!
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President William McKinley cited reconciliation between the North and South...
"the time has now come, in the evolution of sentiment and feeling under the providence of God, when in the spirit of fraternity we should share with you in the care of the graves of the Confederate soldiers."
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And as to confederate monuments and especially flying the traitorous confederate flag...
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The Confederate flag didn’t fly widely in the south until the 1940s, the Atlantic reports:
After the surrender in 1865, Confederate flags were folded and put away. They were most likely to be spotted at memorials or cemeteries. Even after the hopeful decade of Reconstruction gave way to the violent repression of Redemption, open displays of the flag remained rare. There was no need for a banner to signal defiance; Jim Crow reigned unchallenged.
The flag slowly crept back into public life over the ensuing decades, saluted at veterans’ reunions, promoted by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, even carried into battle by units from the South. By the mid-twentieth century, the flags were also waved by football fans, and sold to tourists.
But as a political symbol, the flag was revived when northern Democrats began to press for an end to the South’s system of racial oppression. In 1948, the Dixiecrats revolted against President Harry Truman—who had desegregated the armed forces and supported anti-lynching bills. The movement began in Mississippi in February of 1948, with thousands of activists “shouting rebel yells and waving the Confederate flag,” as the Associated Press reported at the time. Some actually removed old, mothballed flags from the trunks where they had until then been gathering dust.
So, it’s true that Confederate and Union soldiers are considered equal under federal law, but critics argue that the same isn’t true of the American and Confederate flags.
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So the bottom line being, the confederate flag (symbol of United States traitors) never became an issue...until such time in the LATE 40's that the movement to fight against Jim Crow laws and institutional racism began.
So anyone claiming that the confederate flag has any other meaning than white supremacy...is full of $hit.
Your side lost, this great nation was saved from a bunch of traitors and those who whine and still act like snowflakes because of that a$$-kicking...should just get over it.
PS. And any flags or monuments, on public property, trying to spread the hate that the confederacy and flag represents...need to be removed.
