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Confederate flag permanently out of Veterans Memorial Park (KS)
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
BY BECCY TANNER
The Wichita Eagle
Wichita Park Board members voted Monday to permanently keep the Confederate flag from flying at Veterans Memorial Park.
A Confederate flag had been displayed at the John S. Stevens Pavilion at Veterans Memorial Plaza near downtown since 1976, when it was placed there in a historical flag display as part of the nation’s bicentennial ...
The Park Board recommended Monday to instead replace the flag with the Kansas flag and also approved plans for a Reconciliation Memorial that addresses the diverse and various sides of the Civil War ...
http://www.kansas.com/news/local/article43882719.html
