I feel this pin, this symbol often innocently used for CW reenactment or CW roundtables is WRONG. It's a back door permission for Confederate apologists to claim "you know, the Confederacy was an American cause too, and let's just get along" (i.e. it invokes "I'm OK, You're OK)." Yet it denies the very un-American basis of the Confederacy - slavery. This symbol visually equates the United States of America with the very symbol of traitor forces to the United States of America - a Confederate Battle Flag. The Confederate armies never made peace with the U.S., they merely surrendered to it. The battle armies could not make peace the U.S. in any event, as they were not nations in themselves. SO THIS IS NOT OK:
More correct is pairing wih a Confederate national flag, which at least correctly denotes the peace struck between the two nations back in the day, yet still confusing to equate the modern flag of a still viable nation with the heritage flag of an extinct nation. SO THIS IS NOT MUCH BETTER:
It's POOR that we rely on Chinese makers for both of the above, who don't respect us enough to even put in the correct amount of stars in the current U.S. flag, let alone the far fewer stars of the heritage U.S. flag that should be on the pin.
So to keep the symbol appropriately limited to the heritage time period it represents HERE'S WHAT IS OK:
...because it commemorates the actual flags used in that battle, honoring the dead and the survivors of that battle.
Crossed flags are appropriate between two current legitimate parties (not a traitor equated with the very country it attacked). SO THESE ARE OK:
The U.S. with it's state of South Carolina, partners, and
The U.S. with Scotland (or any other current friendly nation), partners.
More correct is pairing wih a Confederate national flag, which at least correctly denotes the peace struck between the two nations back in the day, yet still confusing to equate the modern flag of a still viable nation with the heritage flag of an extinct nation. SO THIS IS NOT MUCH BETTER:
It's POOR that we rely on Chinese makers for both of the above, who don't respect us enough to even put in the correct amount of stars in the current U.S. flag, let alone the far fewer stars of the heritage U.S. flag that should be on the pin.
So to keep the symbol appropriately limited to the heritage time period it represents HERE'S WHAT IS OK:
...because it commemorates the actual flags used in that battle, honoring the dead and the survivors of that battle.
Crossed flags are appropriate between two current legitimate parties (not a traitor equated with the very country it attacked). SO THESE ARE OK:
The U.S. with it's state of South Carolina, partners, and
The U.S. with Scotland (or any other current friendly nation), partners.
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