The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Heritage Attacks

Being an account of news I consider to be an attack on my heritage which happens way too often these days. Usually these involve the Confederate flag, more specifically the Naval Jack.

FEB. 23-- Complaints about the flag on the CSS Neuse II in Kinston, NC, even though it is the Second National.

FEB. 24-- NASCAR cancels the General Lee car from "Dukes of Hazzard" from the parade lap in Phoenix because of the flag on the roof. Didn't NASCAR start out in the South. How can they turn their back on their heritage.

FEB 24-- Clemson Tiger (SC) editor Jenny Tumas, "We cannot ignore the immorality of our ancestors." The flag represents racism and is an "unacceptable symbol of remembrance." This really hurts as this is a Southern School.

FEB. 28-- Socorro, New Mexico, mayor wary of a Confederate Memorial, "...certain things in the Confederate reasoning that in my mind are not just distasteful, they're not right." The New Mexico SCV own the land, so fortunately, there is not much he can do.

It is sad that certain groups have painted my heritage as being akin to Nazism. It wasn't.

Things That Just Burn Me. --Old Secesh

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