A Betrayal of Their Fathers, Part 3

We believe our American heritage and traditions rightly include the presence of the Southern battle flag. The more so, given the realization that, considering certain justifiable criteria, The Declaration of Independence, set a precedent for the dissolution of a people from the country to whom they previously owed their allegiance; a concept which the South understood, and affirmed in its decision to separate from the Union. (Should it be thought strange that this short-lived government chose a symbol such as “The Stars and Bars” to represent their military’s heroic exploits on the battlefield, as their predecessor had chosen “Old Glory” to represent its own)?

 

It is nothing less than admirable, (though perhaps paradoxical to them who practice political correctness) that our own federal government made the decision to name United States military facilities, (such as Ft. Jackson and Ft. Lee) after Confederate generals, and that at the 1938 reunion of Union and Confederate veterans at Gettysburg our own President Franklin Roosevelt praised the patriotism and conciliation of both parties to the conflict.

 

We, as Southerners, are the descendants of those who fought, bled and died under two flags; that of the fledging United States, and that of the Confederate States of America. The blood of just and honorable men, and women run through our veins, and without them we would have been denied the wherewithal to live, and move, and breathe on this earth. The disproportionate, and inimical reaction to the crime of a mad man, in that the flag, monuments and grave markers of our Southern ancestors are dishonored and abased, not only insults our ancestors, but us, their descendants, as well.

 

We believe the representatives of the State of South Carolina, descendants of those brave men who fired the first shots of The War Between the States have, in the name of political correctness, dishonored their own ancestors by removing the Confederate Battle Flag from a place of prominence on their Capitol grounds. We also believe that the Southern Baptist Convention, and/or representatives thereof, are close to denying their own Southern heritage, (the first word in the title of this denomination) by disavowing the honorable and rightful place of the Confederate Battle Flag in the annals of American history.

 

We urge the Southern Baptist Convention to defer from political correctness and to differentiate between the improper use of the Confederate Battle Flag as a symbol of hatred, and its proper role in American society; a symbol of Southern heritage, and a conflict between warring parties, each persuaded that the cause for which they fought was altogether just.

 

Sincerely,

 

William McDonald, PhD                Mrs. Kimberly Hogan


By William McDonald, PhD. Excerpt from "(Mc)Donald's Daily Diary" Vol. 12. Copyright Volumes 1-15.

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