Meet the 3rd generation Politically correct Croat who has much reverence for his own ethnic past but wants to tear ours down. He has no Confederate roots so our history doesn't matter to him just like Nikki Haley who is a second generation Indian Sikh (family only came here in the 1960s) and whom has great reverence for her Sikh ancestry, but none for our Confederate heritage. We have a great leadership crisis in Dixie as so many of our politicians are not of real Southern blood!!
For over a hundred years in Biloxi, immigrants have come to work in the seafood industry, fueled by the notion t...
As part of its "Flags Across the Carolinas" project, the North Carolina Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans has unveiled a massive confederate flag along Interstate 95 in Cumberland County.
The 20-by-30-foot flag, which is on a pole about 90 feet in the air, sits just off the southbound lanes of the highway between mile marker 63 and 64 near Godwin.
Drivers passing the location have honked their horns and stopped to take pictures since it went up on Wednesday.
Josh Hagge was one of the drivers who stopped. He says he's happy to see it.
"It shows people that this is the South. It's a symbol for the South. It's not hatred," Hagge said. "People think it is, but it's not, really.
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I like seeing that flag, because I'm very proud to have a Confederate ancestor, my biological (i.e., I was adopted) great great great grandfather, Corporal Jonathan Trueblood, North Carolina Seventh Regiment, Confederate Senior Reserves.
ReplyDeleteI currently live in Vernal, Utah, but I grew up in Spring Lake, North Carolina, where my father, mother, and stepmother are buried.
This is the URL for a song I composed about the town I grew up in:
https://youtu.be/_dUg2Opk6xM
Oh, so many years ago, when I was a boy in Cumberland County, you could buy a Confederate flag or Confederate souvenirs in any local store, but now all of that has disappeared.
Great son. Thanks.
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