This much should be applauded. However, the Confederacy as it ought to have been is not the Confederacy of history. If there are aspects of the southern cause which are noble and worthy of memory, so too of the northern cause. Remembering a rosy picture of one's own past is to be expected, but painting the other guy's motives and cause as improperly dark can only stir old hatreds. The old wounds, and the old causes, are not entirely closed.
Truth seems required.
If those who today wear the butternut wish to be seen at their best and most moral, they should be ready to acknowledge the best and most moral of those wearing blue. Afterwards For about three years, Recognizing the Battle Flag was posted on the web and ended as above. In that time I have come to worry less about memories of the Old South, and more about tensions abroad. The reasons for this concern are stated in Polyticks . I was recently visiting a Sons of Confederate Veterans web site .