Incident at an Antique Store

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(08-09-2014 09:11 AM)tblunk Wrote:  

(08-09-2014 08:09 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Re: KKK, actually the Nazis, too, adapted, twisted, and ruined an ancient symbol for their purposes:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

A few years ago we visited the newly refurbished West Baden Springs Hotel, near French Lick, Indiana. It is quite stunning. Originally built in 1900-ish, there are swastikas in the cast iron porch posts. They had information in several places explaining that the swastika was a symbol for luck prior to being used by the Nazis.

German born Alexandra Feodorovna, Russia's last Empress, loved the swastika and sewed it on her personal embroidery. She taught her four daughters to do likewise. This was of course many years before Hitler and the Nazis co-opted it as the symbol of the Third Reich.

Craig,

Regardless of my personal feelings about it, I agree that Southerners should be able to display their banner on their cars, homes, lawns, or whatever personal property they have and they should not be harassed or judged for it. BUT...I also 100% agree that the Confederate banner does not belong on Federal property...at all. And if it is flown on State property it should take it's place under the Stars and Stripes and the official State flag.

This is, after all, the United States of America.