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[Christine]

This was the article I read this morning before I posed the question:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/us/sou....html?_r=1

I am sincerely interested in others' opinions - not trying to stir up discord. If I ask that question of my family and friends here it would be 100% in favor of removing it.

So I was interested in a full discussion, particularly from people whose ancestors bled and died for the confederacy. My husband, whose mom was born and raised in Georgia with relatives from Alabama (pro confederacy - some partisan rangers) and North Carolina (some anti confederacy who were forced to fight) and some from Mississippi (who were drafted into the confederacy and fought but then went AWOL and joined their friend Newt Knight's band in fighting for the free state of Jones, Mississippi - one who was killed by Confederate soldiers in his front yard. I wish she was still alive so I could ask her opinion.

It appears after 150 years we are still 'fighting' the Civil War in many ways.