Many of those who fought in the Civil War were not slave owners and did not in any way benefit from slavery. I have never watched Gone with the Wind..or maybe I saw parts of it..can't remember or whatever other movie there was. You can not expect the pain of war to disappear in living memory, and when I was born it was in living memory of some very old people. You can not expect a proud people to disown their ancestors...you can expect them to realize that their ancestors did bad things..and I have recently found out my ancestors were in the south and did bad things..very bad..and I would not allow the Confederate flag to be flown in public places..but neither do I think that families with an unbroken memory and unbroken history of flying it meant to shove it in anyone's faces...and yes I do believe people can be quite ignorant...

And I certainly don't believe that flying it is an insult to those who died in the Union cause..I do buy that it is very offensive to descendents of slaves..but that was not a common notion over the years....it was buy and large grandaddy died at Appomatox and here is how we honor him.

And the meanness that you have on behalf of other people, Greg F. in partciular, does not do anybody any good. I am through reading what you have to say, and that is only true of one other person on this list. You are just too mean period. There is a lot to be sympathetic about when people, including your awful enemies, have been through a war..hundreds of years later. It does not go away easily. mg