Confederate battle flags removed…
Confederate battle flags were recently removed from a cemetery in Boiling Springs in response to national racial tension. (Special to The Star/Gaston Gazette/TNS)
…from veterans’ graves
By: JACOB CONLEY
The Confederate battle flags that were placed at the graves of Confederate soldiers in the Boiling Springs First Baptist Church cemetery have been removed. The flags are traditionally placed by gravesides anonymously on May 10, which is Confederate Memorial Day in North Carolina.
The church’s cemetery committee posted a letter of explanation to Facebook informing parishioners of the decision to remove the flags.
The letter reads: “The Cemetery Committee requests that everyone refrain from decorating graves in the Boiling Springs Baptist Church Cemetery with Confederate battle flags on Confederate Memorial Day and at other times as well. Confederate flags in our day are symbols of racism, hate, and division. They are incompatible with our church’s stated mission: “to share God’s love and message of salvation with this community and around the world.” We affirm the dignity and worth of all humanity and stand in solidarity with our black and brown siblings who experience injustice. Removing racist symbols from the graveyard is a small way to show we believe, with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., that “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
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The Cleveland County regiment of the Sons of Confederate Veterans issued the following statement in response to the church’s decision.
“We regret the decision made by the First Baptist Church of Boiling Springs, North Carolina, to no longer allow the Confederate veterans buried in their cemetery to be honored on Confederate Memorial Day. On May 10 of each year, North Carolina observes Confederate Veterans Memorial Day by placing Confederate flags on their graves in remembrance of their sacrifices they made when called to duty by the State Of North Carolina, just as their grandfathers did during the Revolutionary War.”
At least the Marines left grave sites alone. There’s a site in Southern Maryland near Piney Point State Park that has Confederate graves, a monument and the Battle Flag flies 24/7, illuminated during the hours of darkness. It’s on private land, so the idiots in Annapolis can’t touch it. Anyone who tried would simply disappear. Read the entire article here: American Military News
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I live maybe an hour from there, so let me relate this story: A couple of weeks ago my wife wants to go decorate her mother’s grave in the next county and I go along to get out of the house. The church is probably at least 150 years old and the graveyard is very large. So while she is spruising up her mom’s grave I walk among the gravestones looking for interesting headstones (which I always do in graveyards for at least the past 30 years). I notice that the graves of the Confederate veterans had a different flag than the stars and bars, one with fields of red white and blue but the dates May 25th 1775-May 25th 1861. I’ve got to figure these dates mark the Mecklenburg declaration and the date 85 years later that NC leaves the Union. I don’t know if this was done by a local SCV chapter or it it is a more widespread effort to avoid any problems, but I thought it was interesting (not far from my home the SCV has erected a giant Confederate battle flag right by the interstate).
Prior state flag of NC. You might notice a passing resemblance to the current one.
Live in Wilmington. Most people would be hard pressed to even find Boiling Springs, much less this cemetery.
So can we have the Mexican Flag removed? It causes problems for the families of those who died at the Mexican led massacre at the Alamo.
Butbutbut that would be waaaaaayyyyythith!!!
How long before leftists oppose the United States Flag because it has the same colors as the confederate flag?
Trigger Warning!!!
I repeat; as soon as “they” have insured the removal of all things Historically Confederate, “they” will come for all other symbols of History AND the Christian Religion. That is “their” agenda. It is part and parcel of the overall plan to divide and conquer America. You students of history here know and understand that. We are in a declared war on our society and our Country. The ignorance of these people is appalling. I point out the damage done to the 54th MA Rgmt Monument in Boston, the damage to the Lincoln Memorial in DC. I have made no secret here that I am a long time member of the SCV. Am also associated with the SUV (Sons of Union Veterans), and The American Legion. I have commented and shown documentation that gives the Confederate Veteran the same protection and rights from the US Government as a Union Veteran. On Confederate Memorial Day here, 26 April, we will decorate the graves and pay Honors to those Troops. Just as we do on US Memorial/Decoration Day and on 11 November. The State Law gives protection to ALL War Memorials, but it does no good since we can’t guard them 24/7/365 and when someone is caught damaging said Memorials, there is no prosecution. Kinda sorta locally here we’ve had one Memorial Statue in town deliberately struck and heavily damaged by a vehicle and another, in a Cemetery almost totally destroyed. Put it in a museum “they” said; it’ll be safe. Put it in a cemetery “they” said; it’ll be safe. UDC Headquarters Museum in Richmond…torched…irreplaceable items…lost! The Lion of the Confederacy Statue in Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, watching over 3000+ unknown dead…vandalized heavily. And that was after a very expensive sign “explaining/putting into context” the contribution of blacks to the war effort. There are probably some Black Confederates that have a Flag placed on their grave every year. They did exist you know. Could be some in that very Church Burial Ground. A local Church here is documented to having made and presented to a Company of men that became part of… Read more »
“we believe, with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., that “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.””
So. . . . Having a flag in a cemetery was causing someone’s rights to be infringed? If someone in the neighborhood fricking burned me in effigy, it really wouldn’t hurt me at all. I might even get some marshmallows and a long stick – waste not, want not.
This (flags in a cemetery – or anywhere for that matter) differs from burning a cross on the lawn because the burning cross was a threat that normally proceeded (or certainly threatened) violence. A flag in some out of the way cemetery doesn’t do anything to anyone. If they are made aware of it and get “offended”, that STILL does not infringe on their rights. It doesn’t, that is, until someone passes a law against offending someone. When that happens you just stand the hell by because liberals offend the hell outta me!
Can’t they just fucking let the dead rest in peace?
How long until these assholes advocate for the removal of Confederate dead from any and all land?
We can see it on the horizon: Dig up the forefathers, the Rebs and all slave owners, the pyres will purge our sin.
What do we gain by tolerating these monsters?
Negation of history sets us on a path to reap its bitter lessons learned.
Rehash of the 1497 Bonfire of the Vanities? Nothing can burn sin.
Next they’ll be screeching for the removal of religious symbols like WHINEstein on steroids, all except for the muzzie religion!
They will leave no stone unturned in their
quest to sanitize history.
If the first casualty of war is truth then a
graveyard is the ultimate resting place for it.
Where else would you look?
Always look back so you can see where you have been is on of the 1st rules I was taught. That’s so I would not get lost. I see and hear a bunch of lost sole out there and sorry to say that some can’t even determine their Biological sex, and everything is somebody else faulty. The youth are all stuck in a hand held device and are getting bombarded with lies, and false information.
I hope I’m not around to see them destroying any of our Military History.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/defense-secretary-mark-esper-army-003426153.html Esper and the Army say they are now open to renaming Hood, Bragg etc. in the name of political correctness.
Oh FFS! Is it too early for some Kentucky nectar to sooth this weary soul?
History is, and will ever be.
Stop messing with it!
Fort Floyd would go a long way towards ending
the racism against people that pass counterfeit
bills while high on Meth and Fentanyl.
Am I being insensitive?
Yes! And I f**king LOVE IT!
More ignorance of History on display by this vandalization.
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/news/tadeusz-kosciuszko.html?fbclid=IwAR1TDdeNAiLXQhvxSDCJohEKHlsVVGwghQIE_9WwzVJH_YM4wbz6–pCqyw
The BLM shitheads even vandalized a memorial to the 54th Massachusetts, an all-Black Regiment that fought in the Civil War!
They’re brainless minions like Lars:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/02/rioters-deface-glory-monument-to-black-civil-war-soldiers-boston-54th/
Diamond Dave couldn’t keep his bullshit opinion in his pants…
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/take-confederate-names-off-our-army-bases/612832/
Petraeus suggests that the Confederate Generals were traitors to the Constitution. Funny this, I remember the Southern AND Northern States negotiated a position on slavery, in fact WAS written in to that Constitution. I’m starting to wonder what they teach at The War College, Castle Greyskull, IOBC, etc…
At what point do we take to Arms to preserve Our history?