<<HISTORY IS NEVER POLITICALLY CORRECT, but only when the truth of what happened to the South is ever able to come to light, especially the horrors of Reconstruction, will there be full understanding as to why Southerners continue to honor their Confederate dead and the flag. If you think people fly that flag to show defiance, hatred of Yankees, or to be flat out racist, you have been brainwashed by the media and the poitically "correct" people to think as they do. Today the flag is flown, as any country's flag, as a point of honor: honor of the dead and honor to an idea for a better form of government. It is interesting that we are still fighting about what we were fighting about in the War Between the States. Many men have died in many wars for freedom and that includes a Southerner's right to fly their flag of honor.>> Thank you for posting that information, and you said it very well. Yes, everybody has the right to an opinion, after all we live in a country where that right is protected. But before one attempts to put their "opinion" on the table as "fact" they need to know the history, the TRUE history. That is what genealogy is all about ... your history ... not just collecting names and dates, but also understanding the whys and the whats of the events of the time and the impact they had on our ancestors. It concerns me personally that so many people are willing to take history based on what they are told or see in the media instead of investigating it themselves. Thank you for stating it well, Linda in Texas