Mixed response to campaign to remove Confederate battle flag
By Linda Wheeler
August 25 at 5:24 PM
... More recently, the privately owned Boone Hall Plantation in Mount Pleasant, S.C., near Charleston, announced that it was cancelling what would have been its 25th anniversary of hosting a reenactment in November of the 1862 Battle of Secesssionville ...
As to changing the names of military bases named for Confederates, in July, the Pentagon brushed aside the possibility of that happening, saying the names represent the individual and not causes or ideologies ...
Among the highly visible flag displays, the set of four at Alabama’s capital at Montgomery were the first to come down June 24. Following a decision by Gov. Robert J. Bentley (R), government workers unceremoniously removed the battle flag and the three national flags of the Confederate States of America from a monument on the Capitol grounds ...
The battle flags will continue to fly at Stone Mountain Park near Atlanta ...
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