Good Evening, I know some of you have been following the controversy surrounding Confederate Battle Flags being lowered at two historic memorial sites in Missouri. If you would like to bring yourself up-to-date on this important issue concerning everyone's heritage, browse through the relevant discussions in the MO-CW Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/MO-CW/2003-01 If you STILL don't think this will have its ramifications on you, then consider this: The next time you go to search for one of your ancestors on the internet, or at the historical society, or ask me to do a lookup for you, or ask Lanita to do a lookup for you, or one of the volunteers on the website to do a lookup for you, Grandpa or Grandma's records just might not be there. Because, unfortunately, the people who you are paying to preserve these records have decided it is within their power to [and I quote here] "interpret history so that it does not offend...." And some politician may have decided to get his 15 minutes of fame by erasing YOUR family's name from the pages of history. N "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." ~Edmund Burke