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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (722601)	1/22/2006 11:42:47 AM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

(Look again. 3 flags in one pic, 2 in the other.) His main page has separate gif files for each flag, but the confederate flag size has a bigger footprint. My main complaint (as a Southerner) would be the ignorance about the 'Confederate' flag. The battle flag is not 'the Confederate flag', and people have a point when they point out that the battle flag was resurrected in the '50s as a symbol for segregationists and racists to rally around. I agree... This I knew... Although less well known than the "Confederate Battle Flags", the Stars and Bars was used as the official flag of the Confederacy from March 1861 to May of 1863. The pattern and colors of this flag did not distinguish it sharply fom the Stars and Stripes of the Union. Consequently, considerable confusion was caused on the battlefield. americancivilwar.com This I didn't know... One interesting version of the Stars and Bars is the 18 star version used by Gen. Stand Watie, the last confederate general to surrender his command, the Cherokee Brigade. It had 13 white stars in a circle and 5 red ones for the "five civilized nations", the five indian tribes that joined the confederacy. researchonline.net * * *