Confederate License Plates

[samgrant]

A Florida legistator wants to honor the four year effort to overthrow the government of the United States by issuing automobile license plates which would pay homage to "Confederate Heritage".

Rep. Don Brown does not specify which part of "Confederate Heritage" he wishes to pay homage to.

The slavery part, perhaps?

"I appreciate the heritage and the good things that people feel about our past."

http://news.google.com/news?svnum=10...ncl=1136528861

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[ole]

I'm gonna stay ambivalent. The Battle Flag means so many things to so many different people. To this group, it means slavery. That that one, it's rebellion. To another, it represents some honorable people who fought one helluva fight for something they thought was right. I'd certainly not want to pay extra for that flag on my plate, and I'll wonder about the guy that would; but if 30,000 Floridians would buy it, what reason do I have to complain?

ole

[samgrant]

The perfect moderator.

I'll submit that rebellion against the United States was the essence of "Confederate Heritage"

( I guess that I forgot that slavery had nothing to do with the war.)



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[ElisahsGrtGrndaughter]

Why do you speak with such venom?

The war was fought by both sides, each defending what it believed in. Their way of life, the only way they'd ever known.

Having lived from coast to coast and continent to continent, I have had the advantage to study each side's interreptation of who was right and who was wrong.

And I have to say, frankly, niether side was right nor wrong. That is, after all, what WAR is about. One side doing everything in it's power to uphold it's beliefs and forcing those beliefs on others, and vice versa??

The North thought they were right, the South though they were right. It all falls on each side's beliefs.

The sad thing is, it divided a country and showed the world we can have a weak moment.

Oh, and if the State of Virginia would offer a Daughters of the Confederate plate, I'd proudly display it.

~Kerri

[ElisahsGrtGrndaughter]

Originally Posted by samgrant

( I guess that I forgot that slavery had nothing to do with the war.) -

By the way, BOTH sides held Slaves, did they not?

~Kerri

[samgrant]

Originally Posted by ElisahsGrtGrndaughter

Why do you speak with such venom?

The war was fought by both sides, each defending what it believed in. Their way of life, the only way they'd ever known.

Having lived from coast to coast and continent to continent, I have had the advantage to study each side's interreptation of who was right and who was wrong.

And I have to say, frankly, niether side was right nor wrong. That is, after all, what WAR is about. One side doing everything in it's power to uphold it's beliefs and forcing those beliefs on others, and vice versa??

The North thought they were right, the South though they were right. It all falls on each side's beliefs.

The sad thing is, it divided a country and showed the world we can have a weak moment.

Oh, and if the State of Virginia would offer a Daughters of the Confederate plate, I'd proudly display it.

~Kerri

Venom??? (Where?)

Just the facts, mamm.

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