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Old 08-25-2017, 04:25 PM
 
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the end?

Former Burke principal charged for pepper spraying Confederate re-enactor | News | morganton.com
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Old 08-25-2017, 04:34 PM
 
Location: NW Nevada
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Knew this crap would start up. (sigh) Just a matter of time before there's a confrontation at an event.
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Old 09-04-2017, 05:30 AM
 
Location: Minnysoda
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just an update

Both Bull run reenactments have been cancelled.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...=.e34a0b33feab

as well as warrenton
Fauquier Heritage Day cancelled out of concern
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Old 09-04-2017, 05:53 AM
 
Location: Wonderland
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Those articles don't say that the Confederate flag was banned from the Gettysburg battlefield.
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Old 09-04-2017, 06:03 AM
 
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Do they use it during reenactments? That's the important thing.

When they aren't doing the reenactment, the Confederate flag shouldn't be flying on public property in Pennsylvania. That's the land of the victors, not the losers. The losers screwed up by invading Pennsylvania in the first place, and their flag shouldn't be flying high in Yankee territory. I'm not gonna forget that the Confederacy took hundreds of free blacks living in the area and sent them south to be enslaved. That's a story that gets overlooked. The order HAD to have come from Lee.

Confederates' 'slave hunt' in North a military disgrace | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Now if it's a Southern battlefield, then I have no issues with the Confederate flag flying high.
I have an issue with Confederate flag flying in the United States of America.

Should absolutely not be flying on U.S. property, whether is is in the South or the North.
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Old 09-04-2017, 06:03 AM
 
Location: Minnysoda
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Those articles don't say that the Confederate flag was banned from the Gettysburg battlefield.
Thread is about reenacting......... although......


Gettysburg removes some Confederate flag items
The National Park Service is asking its gift shops to remove flags
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Old 09-04-2017, 06:13 AM
 
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They did not ban the Confederate flag from Gettysburg battlefield.

Neither of these articles say the Confederate flag was banned at the Gettysburg National Military Park either.

Apparently, they are no longer selling the Confederate flag. Since this is a U.S. facility, I am surprised they were selling the flag of traitors in the first place.

A lawmaker wants to ban the Confederate flag from battle reenactments, but as far as I can tell that has not occurred.

As far as I've been able to find out, the Confederate flag is still being flown at the Gettysburg National Military Park and still being waved about in the reenactments on how the South committed treason.

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Old 09-04-2017, 06:16 AM
 
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Thread is about reenacting......... although......


Gettysburg removes some Confederate flag items
The National Park Service is asking its gift shops to remove flags
Seems you didn't read the article. ??????

This is part of our problem in the USA - interpreting facts to fit a narrative made up in someone's head.
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Old 09-04-2017, 06:17 AM
 
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Here in Charleston SC they cancelled the re-enactment they used to do a few years aback.

So it isn't 'this is the end of re-enactments'...it is the re-enactments may continue to decrease.
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Old 09-04-2017, 06:18 AM
 
Location: Pennsylvania
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So with all this hullabaloo from the left re Confederates and Nazis I wonder what's going to happen to the reenacting hobby????? (mods feel free to move to hobby's if you don't think it could go here)
I'd rather watch paint dry than do one of these ridiculous Civil War re-enactments.
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