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struggle4progress

(118,297 posts) Tue Dec 22, 2015, 10:11 PM Dec 2015

Relic Room cuts Confederate flag display by $1.7 million (SC)

BY JEFF WILKINSON

The Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum Commission on Tuesday lowered to $3.6 million a proposal for displaying the Confederate battle flag that was removed from the State House grounds in July.

The new proposal is about $1.7 million less than what a consultant proposed earlier this month. The new plan also reduces projected annual operating funds to $234,000 from the consultant’s proposed $416,000.

The commission voted unanimously to approve the plan, which includes opening a new wing at the Relic Room, which is located in the same renovated textile mill as the S.C. State Museum. The proposal also includes an electronic presentation of the names of all 24,000 South Carolina Confederate soldiers killed in the Civil War and the conservation and display of period Confederate battle flags now in storage ...

http://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article51200670.html

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Relic Room cuts Confederate flag display by $1.7 million (SC) (Original Post) struggle4progress Dec 2015 OP

This is going to cause a stir. Are_grits_groceries Dec 2015 #1

But this is the actual nylon flag that flew in front of the state capitol struggle4progress Dec 2015 #2

Are_grits_groceries

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1. This is going to cause a stir.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 02:55 AM

Dec 2015

A lot of people were pissed about the original amount. This isn't any better.

struggle4progress

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2. But this is the actual nylon flag that flew in front of the state capitol

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 03:49 AM

Dec 2015

for two weeks, a century and a half after the Civil War ended!

Sure, some cynics will say that it is a cheap modern knock-off, with little or no resemblance to the flags that flapped above South Carolina's confederates during the late unpleasantness between the states, but they're forgetting the true history: how Brett and Scarlett would jalopey into town and fill the gas tank and Scarlett would catch a movie while Brett got a shave and shoeshine, and then they'd head home jingling spare change to sit on the veranda sipping minty juleps and listening to happy songs from the cotton fields as the moon rose

Is $3.7 million really too much to help us remember that?

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