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Tue Jul 28, 2015, 03:01 PM Jul 2015

County Commissioner Wants Confederate Flag on Mud Island Removed (TN)

POSTED 5:21 PM, JULY 27, 2015
BY MELISSA MOON

... It’s part of a display that represents all the governments that at one point had control of the area.

The general manager of Mud Island Park said it’s part of history ...

But County Commissioner Walter Baily, who admitted he didn’t even know the flag was there until Monday, didn’t see it that way.

“It ought to be removed immediately,” said Bailey ...


http://wreg.com/2015/07/27/county-commissioner-wants-confederate-flag-on-mud-island-removed/

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