JIm,
While jogging through the cemetary one day,
I saw all these Confederate hangers on displaying
the flag and taking photos of reenactors and all
kinds of crap. Went over to ask what was up.
Learned that it was Confederate Memorial Day
which they were celebrating. Apparently it predates
the Union one (the usual one). It was not until after
World War II that this identity of the usual Memorial
Day was forgotten, and with all the new war dead
it began to be celebrated in the South, with the
Confederate one becoming largely forgotten, although
it is technically a vacation day in Virginia for anyone
who wishes to take it.
On that day, those flags were gone after they all
left after a few hours of horsing around.
Barkley Rosser
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Devine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 5:42 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:9629] The Con Flag
> Barkley wrote:
> >I have noticed a recent odd shift regarding
> >the use and abuse of the Confederate battle flag. Prior
> >to about two years ago, I almost never saw it flying over
> >the local Confederate graves, except on Confederate
> >Memorial Day (April 26). However I always saw if flying
> >over a small cemetary in Madison, Wisconsin for
> >Confederate POWs. Today, it is always flying over the
> >former, in fact usually several of its versions. It no longer
> >flies over that cemetary in Madison.
> > Are we in for Civil War redux?
>
> fortunately or unfortunately, it's a standard backlash. The totally
> justifiable attack on the public display of the racist flag encouraged the
> closet KKK-types to come out ...
>
> Gee, why do you know when Confederate Memorial Day is? Is it because it's
a
> Big Day in Virginia?
>
> Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
>
>
