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The Lincoln Project videos compilation updated 1 June 2020 - Flag of Treason (Original Post) GoneOffShore Jun 2020 OP
I could never understand how we could allow the honoring of these traitors. Fla Dem Jun 2020 #1
Absolutely - My mother was from Petersburg VA and I remember my grandfather GoneOffShore Jun 2020 #2

Fla Dem

(27,764 posts)
1. I could never understand how we could allow the honoring of these traitors.
Mon Jun 1, 2020, 10:27 AM
Jun 2020

They fought against the USA, they killed Americans. Anyone openingly honoring them now should have their American citizenship taken away from them and the flag should be banned. It is an affront to me as an American and as a ancestor of a Civil War USA veteran.

GoneOffShore

(18,035 posts)
2. Absolutely - My mother was from Petersburg VA and I remember my grandfather
Mon Jun 1, 2020, 11:57 AM
Jun 2020

And my cousins talking about 'The War of Northern Aggression'. They also talked about 'negras' - a lot. I knew they were wrong when I heard them the first time and I was about 5 or 6.

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