The South Lost

[jwirr]

33. Old generations die out and with them their old ways? It has been 150 years. I do not think the

article quoted in the OP is wise - just continues the fight but I do not think that it is the reason that the hate has not died out. The haters teach it.

Like calling the Civil War the War of Aggression. What aggression? I seem to remember that it was a southerner who fired on Fort Sumter. The south that seceded. A war of aggression would have been one where we invaded them with no provocation. Something like how we invaded Iraq.

I worked as curator at a museum. We were working on a veteran's memorial room and I (German-American) and my assistant (born in Germany) were given all the artifacts that the Veterans organization had stored for years from WWII. Included in these artifacts was both a Nazi flag and the flag of Japan. We asked our director how we should display these flags. It was left to us to decide.

We had no problem with the Japanese flag because it is still the flag of Japan. It was hung up as they now display it.

But the Nazi flag was not so easy. That flag was the symbol of a defeated nation who represented some pretty terrible things like the holocaust. My uncle had fought against that flag and my assistants father had fought for it. In the end we laid it on the bottom of the display case (did not hang it in a sign of honor) and rested other Nazi artifacts on it. Displayed but not honored. It was the symbol of a nation our country had defeated and nothing else.