April 21, 2000
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A Flag, Not a Statement
To the editors:
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry while I read Christina S.N. Lewis' "Not Gone with the Wind." (Column, April 19). I finally decided not to laugh.
Lewis finds it hard to believe that maybe, just maybe, the "evil" whites who supported keeping the flag up didn't mean it as an insult to blacks at all. And the flag's intent truly is to honor the Confederate dead; whether this fact is misinterpreted shouldn't be the fault of the people who supported it. Furthermore, this is a battle flag (the Confederate naval battle flag, to be precise), the purpose of which is to fly over an army on the battlefield. At no time did this flag ever represent the political or governmental side of the Confederacy, which was the job of the Stars and Bars.
Britton C. Boyd
April 25, 2000
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