General Discussion

struggle4progress

(118,379 posts) Mon Jul 13, 2015, 09:50 AM Jul 2015

At Point Lookout in Southern Maryland, Confederate flag still flies

By Colin Campbell
The Baltimore Sun

POINT LOOKOUT — While the Confederate battle flag is coming down from the State House grounds in South Carolina and around the nation, it continues to fly here in St. Mary's County, at the center of a privately owned monument next to the largest burial site of rebel soldiers in Maryland ... Dunbar's group, which calls itself the Point Lookout Prisoners-of-War Descendants Organization, sought to fly the flag on the cemetery grounds year-round. But the VA's National Cemetery Administration wouldn't allow it. So the group raised $32,000 to buy the 3-acre plot of land next to the cemetery and another $250,000 to build a private monument next to the federal one. The group's monument was completed in 2008 ... Under federal policy, the flags may be displayed only in cemeteries where Confederate soldiers, sailors or Marines are buried, and the flags must be provided, and removed the same day, by a historical or service organization ...

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-confederate-cemetery-memorial-20150710-story.html

5 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

At Point Lookout in Southern Maryland, Confederate flag still flies (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2015 OP

Time to raise the money Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jul 2015 #1

I'd expect to see some different posts. Igel Jul 2015 #3

It's private n2doc Jul 2015 #2

Exactly marions ghost Jul 2015 #4

Good govt policy marions ghost Jul 2015 #5

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)

1. Time to raise the money

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Jul 13, 2015, 09:53 AM

Jul 2015

to build a wall on public land so you can't see the flag from the cemetery.

Igel

(35,387 posts)

3. I'd expect to see some different posts.

Reply to Erich Bloodaxe BSN (Reply #1)

Mon Jul 13, 2015, 10:25 AM

Jul 2015

Perhaps putting up a memorial to the victims of slavery where the graveyard is. Leave the graves, of course, but pave over them. Or maybe just plow them into a heap and haul them for rubbish. I've seen too many posts calling for nothing short of grave desecration. Bitterness and contempt run deep. "Hate" may be an apt word, but it would be offensive, I'm sure.

This is out of the way. On private grounds. I have enough problems to not sweat what's happening on private ground near a cemetery with what's probably mostly Confederate soldiers, one that I'm unlikely to ever visit (I didn't even get to St. Mary's county when I lived in MD).

The Jesus of the New Testament is a far more compassionate person that I, but if he could say, "Let the dead bury the dead," I don't see why I can't.

n2doc

(47,953 posts)

2. It's private

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Jul 13, 2015, 10:13 AM

Jul 2015

They can do what they want. There's an idiot flying a huge slavery flag next to I-16 east of Macon. I just think of them as warning flags- warning: Idiots reside here.

marions ghost

(19,841 posts)

4. Exactly

Reply to n2doc (Reply #2)

Mon Jul 13, 2015, 10:53 AM

Jul 2015

they are markers for Bigot Territory. Be warned. Expect a backward mentality around those parts.

marions ghost

(19,841 posts)

5. Good govt policy

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Jul 13, 2015, 11:02 AM

Jul 2015

for a change. So let them privately fund display of the hate flag.

Too bad about not being able to legitimately honor the battle flag as a historical gesture, over ancestor's graves. By turning it into the #1 symbol of racism and hate, they lose that privilege.

Reply to this discussion