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struggle4progress

(118,034 posts)
Wed Aug 24, 2016, 02:08 AM Aug 2016

VA to ban large-scale display of Confederate flag in cemeteries

By Cristina Marcos - 08/23/16 05:57 PM EDT

The Department of Veterans Affairs has decided to ban the large-scale display of the Confederate flag in cemeteries overseen by the agency, following a House vote to do so earlier this year.

In a letter to Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) this month, the VA said it will no longer allow the Confederate flag to fly on any flagpole in national cemeteries. However, groups will still be permitted to adorn individual graves with small Confederate flags on two days of the year: Memorial Day and Confederate Memorial Day.

The VA said that after a year-long review of its policies surrounding the flag's display in its cemeteries, it would change them in accordance with an amendment authored by Huffman that the House adopted in May ...


http://thehill.com/policy/defense/292405-va-to-ban-large-scale-display-of-confederate-flag-in-cemeteries

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VA to ban large-scale display of Confederate flag in cemeteries (Original Post) struggle4progress Aug 2016 OP
Confederate flags will be a much rarer sight at federal cemeteries struggle4progress Aug 2016 #1
It rubs me the wrong way when I see some huge flags flapping Hulk Aug 2016 #2
Many adorn homes, hanging from the front. I tend to prefer people like that, as opposed jtuck004 Aug 2016 #3

struggle4progress

(118,034 posts)
1. Confederate flags will be a much rarer sight at federal cemeteries
Wed Aug 24, 2016, 02:09 AM
Aug 2016

AUG. 23, 2016 1:47 P.M.
REPORTING FROM WASHINGTON
Sarah D. Wire

... Earlier this year, the House voted, 265-159, to approve an amendment with the new policy to the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, but the amendment was not included in the final version. At that point Huffman, who led the amendment with Reps. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) and Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), asked the Department of Veterans Affairs to make the policy change itself ...

http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-sac-essential-politics-updates-confederate-flags-will-not-be-allowed-1471985236-htmlstory.html

 

Hulk

(6,699 posts)
2. It rubs me the wrong way when I see some huge flags flapping
Wed Aug 24, 2016, 04:23 AM
Aug 2016

..in the back of a pick up truck. Won't bother trying to analyze that one, but I always shake my head in disgust.

But what really disgusted me is some dumb ass driving around town with his large dixie flag waving in the bed of the truck. Makes me think he's just taunting a sensitive issue in everyone's face. Waht an ass hole.

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
3. Many adorn homes, hanging from the front. I tend to prefer people like that, as opposed
Wed Aug 24, 2016, 04:56 AM
Aug 2016

to those who would never fly that flag, but find a hundred secret (or not so secret) ways to glorify what it stood for in their daily life, regardless of their party.

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