Confederate Flags in Cemeteries?

 

These days there are many points of controversy in our society -- heck, even in our living rooms! One of the biggies in the United States is the flying of confederate flags. Local wonderful man, Doug Stowe, wrote these words as part of a daily post to his Wisdom of the Hands blog. I can't say it any better than he has, so I am quoting him here.

"I was interviewed yesterday by our local paper because of a letter I had written about Confederate flags decorating the graves of former Confederate soldiers buried in our local cemetery. I noted that many of the young men who fought in the Civil War on the Confederate side were conscripts, forced to fight for a cause in which they did not believe, the preservation of slavery and white supremacy. The vote to secede from the Union was narrow and did not take into consideration the slaves who were not allowed to vote.

Now, a group of folks is allowed to come each year to 'honor' the Confederate dead by placing flags on their graves. But how many of those who were conscripted to fight in the 'lost cause of the Confederacy' would feel honored, or if they were alive in modern times feel either embarrassed or ashamed? And how many of their descendants would prefer they be honored for their participation in the 'lost cause' rather than for the many other accomplishments of their own lives? Does their conscription to serve a lost cause have to be continued even to this day?"

Thank you, Doug, for this perspective..

You can find more words from Doug at his blog: WisdomOfHands.Blogspot.com

 "Right is radical." Mary Baker Eddy