Marine commandant orders removal of Confederate paraphernalia at bases

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(02-28-2020, 01:10 AM)BrownAssClown Wrote: This nonsense should've been taken care of at the end of the Civil War when the south surrendered. It should have been written as an article into the Constitution then and there that any national flag other that the American flag being displayed and flown be considered an act of treason. We wouldn't have the problems were having today.

(02-28-2020, 09:41 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Jesus really?  I guess politics is a circle. That might be the most right wing thing I’ve ever seen here.

I don't know if I would label that "Right wing or Left wing" at all.  It seems to me that the point of incorporating Generals' names into military installations, was to work for the good will of reunification.  

Today, everyone wants to second guess the decisions of leaders past, in order to fit their current agenda.  However the point was to include the South, along with their pride back into the American Nation.

Now, I'm not saying that time hasn't come to abandon some of the memorabilia from that era, because it has.  I'm just saying that let's not forget why it was there, in the first place.  Those who don't remember history, are condemned to repeat it.