{"id":100716,"date":"2020-06-08T15:13:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T19:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=100716"},"modified":"2020-06-08T15:13:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T19:13:46","slug":"confederate-battle-flags-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=100716","title":{"rendered":"Confederate battle flags removed…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nConfederate battle flags were recently removed from a cemetery in Boiling Springs in response to national racial tension. (Special to The Star\/Gaston Gazette\/TNS)<\/em><\/p>\n

…from veterans\u2019 graves<\/h3>\n

By: JACOB CONLEY <\/strong><\/p>\n

The Confederate battle flags that were placed at the graves of Confederate soldiers in the Boiling Springs First Baptist Church cemetery have been removed. The flags are traditionally placed by gravesides anonymously on May 10, which is Confederate Memorial Day in North Carolina.<\/p>\n

The church\u2019s cemetery committee posted a letter of explanation to Facebook informing parishioners of the decision to remove the flags.<\/p>\n

The letter reads: \u201cThe Cemetery Committee requests that everyone refrain from decorating graves in the Boiling Springs Baptist Church Cemetery with Confederate battle flags on Confederate Memorial Day and at other times as well. Confederate flags in our day are symbols of racism, hate, and division. They are incompatible with our church\u2019s stated mission: \u201cto share God\u2019s love and message of salvation with this community and around the world.\u201d We affirm the dignity and worth of all humanity and stand in solidarity with our black and brown siblings who experience injustice. Removing racist symbols from the graveyard is a small way to show we believe, with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., that \u201cinjustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Cleveland County regiment of the Sons of Confederate Veterans issued the following statement in response to the church\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe regret the decision made by the First Baptist Church of Boiling Springs, North Carolina, to no longer allow the Confederate veterans buried in their cemetery to be honored on Confederate Memorial Day. On May 10 of each year, North Carolina observes Confederate Veterans Memorial Day by placing Confederate flags on their graves in remembrance of their sacrifices they made when called to duty by the State Of North Carolina, just as their grandfathers did during the Revolutionary War.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At least the Marines left grave sites alone. There’s a site in Southern Maryland near Piney Point State Park that has Confederate graves, a monument and the Battle Flag flies 24\/7, illuminated during the hours of darkness. It’s on private land, so the idiots in Annapolis can’t touch it. Anyone who tried would simply disappear. Read the entire article here: American Military News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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