Hello Everyone, I have for the past several weeks been reading many comments about the Confederate Battle Flag issue in Missouri. I have enjoyed comments from everyone on all sides. This is healthy to discuss and debate. The one thing that is not being inserted is the fact that the Confederate Battle Flag was lowered and removed for only political purposes.......period. The Governor of the state touts his defense as this Flag is a symbol of division. I'm sorry, but I have been a Missouri resident since birth and am a 6th Generation Missourian. I was raised in St. Louis, Missouri. In all the years I have lived, I have never heard anyone say that that Flag was guilty of dividing folks. Mostly it has been ignored. Now that there is interest generated, it can become a campaign issue for the ignorant representing those who they think are obviously ignorant. Notice, I use the term ignorant, not stupid or dumb. Is anyone aware that the Governor of Missouri spent over a Million Dollars on his personal Inaugeration. I have heard no one in favor of the Confederate Flag, make demands that were insensitive or out of line. No body is asking for this Flag to be flown over the Capital or on any Government buildings. What has occurred, without the people of Missouri being able to decide or make their own choice, a simple historic flag has been removed from what one could only deem appropriate locations for them. If there ever was an appropriate non-offensive location to display this flag, these sites were and are them. It blows my mind that Show Me Missourians have let their Governor take the Show Me away from them. I do not believe the so called Civil War was fought over Slavery, and definitely not from the Missouri prospective. I sure don't know where all those large Plantations were in Missouri. My kin fought on the side of the Confederacy and under William Clarke Quantrill, why? because their land, family and livelyhood were threatened. The Union Bullies at that time came in and stole land and took innocent lives, what would make you mad enough to go to war? Anyway, my point just being stand up Missouri, at least for the right to make your own decissions. I hope I havent' offended anyone, not my intent. I am in constant search for truth and appriciate all comments. Claiborne Scholl Nappier

I assume that all of you who live in Missouri are writing letters to your State Representatives demanding a vote be taken???? That is our right as American citizens. SharonW - who no longer lives in MO but who was also a 6th generation Missouruhn on my grandfather's side and 7th gen on my grandmother's side until I left at age 11 - and who constantly corrects these silly Texuhns who want to call it Missouruh ...or Kentuckians who want to call us Missouri-uhns ...or strange people who try to tell me I'm from Misery. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 9:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MO-CW] To the Victors go the spoils Hello Everyone, I have for the past several weeks been reading many comments about the Confederate Battle Flag issue in Missouri. I have enjoyed comments from everyone on all sides. This is healthy to discuss and debate. The one thing that is not being inserted is the fact that the Confederate Battle Flag was lowered and removed for only political purposes.......period. The Governor of the state touts his defense as this Flag is a symbol of division. I'm sorry, but I have been a Missouri resident since birth and am a 6th Generation Missourian. I was raised in St. Louis, Missouri. In all the years I have lived, I have never heard anyone say that that Flag was guilty of dividing folks. Mostly it has been ignored. Now that there is interest generated, it can become a campaign issue for the ignorant representing those who they think are obviously ignorant. Notice, I use the term ignorant, not stupid or dumb. Is anyone aware that the Governor of Missouri spent over a Million Dollars on his personal Inaugeration. I have heard no one in favor of the Confederate Flag, make demands that were insensitive or out of line. No body is asking for this Flag to be flown over the Capital or on any Government buildings. What has occurred, without the people of Missouri being able to decide or make their own choice, a simple historic flag has been removed from what one could only deem appropriate locations for them. If there ever was an appropriate non-offensive location to display this flag, these sites were and are them. It blows my mind that Show Me Missourians have let their Governor take the Show Me away from them. I do not believe the so called Civil War was fought over Slavery, and definitely not from the Missouri prospective. I sure don't know where all those large Plantations were in Missouri. My kin fought on the side of the Confederacy and under William Clarke Quantrill, why? because their land, family and livelyhood were threatened. The Union Bullies at that time came in and stole land and took innocent lives, what would make you mad enough to go to war? Anyway, my point just being stand up Missouri, at least for the right to make your own decissions. I hope I havent' offended anyone, not my intent. I am in constant search for truth and appriciate all comments. Claiborne Scholl Nappier ==== MO-CW Mailing List ==== "Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war, only patriots - or traitors." - Sen. Stephen Douglas ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

To the Missouruhn, need to pull out that old dusty dictionary dear. From a 3 generation "Texian". (native born Texan in case you don't know what Texian means): Texuhns is correctly spelled Texan. Fondly, Nancy from Texas