Restricted Letter: No room for Confederate flag

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Letter: No room for Confederate flag
By John Medlin on May 21, 2014 in Opinion

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Editor:

On Monday, May 26 we will celebrate Memorial Day, an official federal holiday which according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs “commemorates the men and women who died while in military service.”

This is where it gets tricky, “while in military service”, leaves open “military service” to whom? The United States of America, our allies, our enemies, the Confederate States of America? Under the Veterans Administration’s National Cemetery Administration Directive 3220 the flag of the Confederate States of America — a sworn enemy of the United States of America — is permitted to be flown on Memorial Day at national cemeteries administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Confederate flags are not permitted to be flown at national cemeteries administered by the U.S. Park Service, e.g., Gettysburg, nor are they permitted at national cemeteries administered by the Department of the Army, e.g., Arlington.

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