Comments on: Auburn, Alabama City Councilman removes Confederate Flags from soldier’s graves

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 06:02:41 +0000

On the contrary, guys like this creep do alot more to perpetuate division than any flag ever could.

By: Sam Medlin

Sam Medlin — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 06:00:02 +0000

The guy looks like a pimp from some bad 70s TV show. He looks about as ignorant as he probably is. I'd like to see him try to take a flag off of my ancestor's grave. He should have been arrested for desecrating graves, but the "PC" twitts who run most cities these days are to afraid of greeseballs like this guy to stand up to them.

By: James

James — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:03:46 +0000

Oppressed I think is what they call themselves, Black folk are so wrapped up in not remembering the days of slavery that when one symbol of the Civil War arises they go crazy. Like many people who understand that the war was about country and our rights to own property and sell property without the northern states oppressing us was what they were fighting for. The north owned slaves first then sold them down south as we were perfecting the cotton and sugar plantation way of life. They north had a problem with the south because we were very self sustaining and not needing the northern products because of free trade with England. The north wanted to do away with free labor and the south used it to become very wealthy as the southern plantations will prove to be. The war became the instrument to free the slaves so black folk need to realize that what was gained was freedom and the confederate flag is a symbol of that freedom. Anything after freedom has nothing to do with the confederate flag. That confederate flag that waved on the field of battle was just a way for the southern troops to mark the locations of their troops on the field. People need to read and study history. They need to just let the hatred go.

By: elvis

elvis — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:20:31 +0000

ridiculous – just another person playa hatin – our forefathers died for this, whether right or wrong – there forefathers died for this whether right or wrong – history – i mean live with it

By: Webmaster

Webmaster — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:08:15 +0000

Carl,

Thanks for your comment and thanks for your service. I couldn’t agree with you more!

Webmaster -GoodOldRebel.com

By: Carl

Carl — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:21:19 +0000

Like Gerald above, My Grandfather also served in the Air Force, and my sister and I in the Marine Corps. My family has a long history of military service all the way back to the Revolutionary War. I have ancestors that served on both sides in the Civil War, one being my great-great-grandfather as a Lt. in the Confederacy. I’ll tell you straight up, that flag no more represents slavery or the Ku Klux Klan than Mickey Mouse does. What it does represent is a period in history that is real and needs remembering, on both sides. Slavery was but a side affect of the war in actuallity, the war was originally fought because we wanted to become our own country and good old Uncle Sam couldn’t have that. The Confederate battle Flag represents the men who lived and died fighting for thier personal freedoms and beliefs. The fact that people of today want to use that flag as a symbol of other things simply shows thier own ignorance.

By: Webmaster

Webmaster — Wed, 27 May 2009 01:13:38 +0000

I appreciate your uncle’s service to the United States. It is because of my desire to honor those who had the courage to defend their home that I hold the Confederate Flag in high esteem. The men who fought under that flag were doing no less than their full measure of duty to defend their homes and like your uncle, deserve recognition and respect. I choose to respect them by honoring the banner under which they bravely served.

Webmaster – GoodOldRebel.com

By: Gerald

Gerald — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:43:58 +0000

My uncle fought and died for this country as an officer in the United States Air Force. There is only one flag on this whole planet worth a damn and that is the one he flew under: the American flag, by which I mean the Stars and Stripes.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:59:21 +0000

The city of Auburn should get rid of him and his sorry ways, I'am a veteran.
If he is black or white or whatever, judge him for what he has done and he is in God's hands now, or maybe the devils is what it should be.

By: brandy

brandy — Wed, 06 May 2009 22:35:40 +0000

i have to say this and i am not going to be liked by some peaple but here we go. Why dose it always go back to a race thing. it makes me soo angry because it s been way to long since anyone hass owned slaves, and from my point of veiw about 60% of the time race is the excuse to act like a a jack*ss. from this girl in the south i m mad