Re: The Flag and your comments Date: 1/19/2003 12:27:17 AM Eastern Standard Time From: <A HREF="mailto:PATKRAM">PATKRAM</A> To: <A HREF="mailto:SEASNAPPIER">SEASNAPPIER</A> Get over it..,...the South LOST THE WAR and rightly so.

Didn't Harry Truman say..."If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen." ? No one, in the modern age especially, has the right to universally condemn other people's heritage. And forget about the fact that they lost. Sure if America was a fascist government, all Confederate flags would be burned and forgotten. Is that what the winners of the Civil War wanted ? No, so stop arguing that it all should be forgotten because they lost. Where are the days when we had real democratic leaders ? Men like, Truman who respected his family's past and was fascinated by our Civil War history. He pushed for equal civil rights for blacks, yet never denounced Missouri's history. Flags are the symbols of history and heritage(includes genealogy), we should be hot under the collar when they are attacked. Unlike certain modern politians, Truman knew Civil War history to a wide extent. His favorite school teacher was the daughter of Lt. Hopkins Hardin of Jackson County, Missouri. She used to fascinate Truman by the stories of her father (survivor of Pickett's charge) and how he was used as a human shield as a POW. To read more about Lt. Hopkins Hardin, visit The Missouri Civil War Museum at http://www.missouricivilwarmuseum.org/ The Museum fully supports the display of all Civil War flags in every historical context and the freedom of all Missourians to be proud of their heritage. If you have a Confederate or Union ancestor that you would like to have remembered, the museum offers free entries into our Civil War portrait gallery webpage (just opened, so be patient as new entries are posted.). Also memorial bricks for the real life museum being constructed at Jefferson Barracks (St. Louis County). Scott K. Williams, Webmaster The Missouri Civil War Museum http://www.missouricivilwarmuseum.org/