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Time to follow Gen. Buckner’s example and pull down that Confederate flag
BY THOMAS E. RICKS
SEPTEMBER 4, 2015
During the bloody battle of Okinawa, late in World War II, Army Lt. Gen. Simon B. Buckner Jr., saw a Marine unit flying the Confederate flag over a position. Buckner, himself the son of a Confederate general, ordered it taken down. “Americans from all over are involved in this battle,” he said ...
His father, Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr., was the officer who was defeated by U.S. Grant at Fort Donelson, Tenn., in February 1862. That action led to Grant’s nickname, “Unconditional Surrender.” But the two generals got over their problems and Buckner Sr. was a pallbearer at Grant’s funeral.
If a Confederate general and his son could find this sort of reconciliation and understanding, why is it so hard for some Americans to do so now? ...
https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/09/04/time-to-follow-gen-buckners-example-and-pull-down-that-confederate-flag-2/
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