Friends, Ms. Holst's "explanation" for the removal of the Confederate battle flags at historic Missouri sites simply repeats the National Park Service's "new" thinking: all battlefields and cemeteries are now to be "interpretive" sites (i.e., where revisionist history is propounded) rather than hallowed ground (i.e., where visitors can form their own opinion of the historic event that took place there). It's just another attempt (alas, a seemingly successful one) for the politically correct to assure that no one has the opportunity to make an unbiased assessment of events. Yes, people and events and circumstances in our nation's past can be offensive to some, but it is our history nonetheless. Revisionists simply cannot understand that it is impossible to view (and judge) the past with a contemporary lens. And, what's worse, is they now have decided they know better than the rest of us what it is that is to be learned. Personally, I believe the abrupt removal of the Confederate battle flag at Missouri sites is revisionist intepretation at its worst. What better or more appropriate place to fly that flag than at cemeteries and battlefields where men of both sides fought and died for what they believed? One cannot make believe a philosophy did not exist by simply trying to erase the symbol from the national consciousness. I am offended. I am angry. And I am sad. And I vote. Nancy Bowen Athens, GA 6th generation Missourian