The Second Civil War: Veterans Day, Alabama, Kentucky, Maine, North Carolina and Tennessee

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

**  Reader's View:  Confederate flag has a place on Veterans Day.

**  Confederate flag removed from Marshall County Courthouse in Albertville.  (Alabama)

**  Confederate monument discussion to continue today.  (Madisonville,  Hopkins County, Kentucky)

**  Confederate flag not welcome  at Swampscott protests.  (Maine.  They say it is intolerant and racist.  But they allow BLM with their intolerant and racist signs.  Really?)

**  Confederate heritage group replaces battle flag at monument.  (Albertville, Alabama.  Sons of Confederate Veterans replaced it with the first flag Alabama raised after seceding from the Union.)

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

**  Group reinstates  Confederate flags along I-40 in NC.  (Put up by the Old North State Flaggers)

**  Clarksville settles  lawsuit with Confederate  group.  (Tennessee. The city will pay $34,000.  The people who wanted the Confederate symbols gone should have paid it.)

--Old Secesh

Taking a Day Off to Salute All of Our American Military on Veterans Day 2020

They are the reason why we have the liberties and freedoms as well as the opportunities to succeed.  There are those who would rather we not have them.  These are the thing desert fatigues line that protects us.

And, that includes the American veterans who wore the gray during the Civil War.

Every one of my blogs today is saluting all American veterans.

In keeping with this, a World War II veteran and a Rosie the Riveter were honored in Centerville, Ohio, today.

**   1st Lt. Walter Pettit, 97, was a member of the Army Air Corps  and saw action in the skies over France and Germany, flying a P-47 Thunderbolt.

**  Ruth Snively, 95,  worked at the Seeburg Factory in Chicago as one of the war's "Rosie the Riveters."  Seeburg was known for their jukeboxes, but during the war made sonar sets for the Navy.

I have my U.S. flags out flying proud.  Hope you have yours as well.

Thank You veterans and, of course, the Greatest Generation.  

Attacks on the Confederacy: Texas Politician Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot

From Nov. 12, 2019.

**  Texas politician suggests Veterans Day organizers should be lynched, tells Confederate group to 'get a rope.'

Sid Miller of Stephenville now says this statement was a joke.  Said it after the local Sons of Confederates showed up at Veterans Day parade and were told they had to remove their flags.  They left.

Extremely bad choice of words on his part.

**  Camera, tripwire device found near Confederate monument in Charlottesville.

**  Modern-day Harriet Tubman protests Confederate statue in Brownsville.

**  Curious Nashville:  Why is it so hard to alter Confederate monuments in Tennessee?

**  No Confederate flags flying here.

--Old Secesh

Are Confederate Veterans Considered to be United States Veterans?

Not according to the anti-Confederate folks  who regard them as being the same as the Nazi guards at the German concentration camps during World War II.  Few in world history have been worse.  They deserved nothing but shame and their memory eliminated because of the stain of slavery.

But, how come Confederates are buried in National Cemeteries?  How come they are issued gravestones by the U.S. government?  Why is it that the widows and children are eligible for federal pensions?

Perhaps, somehow, someway, they are U.S. veterans.  As such, disrespect to any of them is tantamount to disrespect for all U.S. veterans.

Something the Confederate haters should think about before they commit hate crimes (i.e. "vandalize") Confederate statues and memorials.  I guess we should condemn them to be a part of those who showed such disrespect for our veterans returning from the Vietnam War.

--Old Secesh