That Confederate Flag Would Have Offended Your Great-Great Grandfather

By Ammoland

By Dr. Paul C. Kemeny and Dr. Gillis J. Harp

Grove City, PA –-(Ammoland.com)- Recently, while waiting in line at a store in Grove City, Pennsylvania, we saw a young man several customers in front of us wearing a sweatshirt with the Confederate battle flag on its back and a caption that read, “If This Flag Offends You, You Need a History Lesson!”

An hour or so later, we saw the same teenager hop into a pickup truck with Pennsylvania tags.

While the citizens of South Carolina are rightly debating the appropriateness of flying the Confederate flag on state grounds, it struck us as pretty ironic that here in western Pennsylvania a teenager would venerate the Confederacy.

As the nation celebrates both the Fourth of July and the 152^nd anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, perhaps this Pennsylvania youth and other confused northern neo-Confederates need a brief history lesson.

Although the Republican Party now finds its strength in Old Dixie, when the party of Lincoln …read more

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