GETTYSBURG REENACTMENT

While I fully understand why people would have a viscerally negative reaction to the Confederate flag, why bother having a reenactment if one side is forbidden to carry flags?

Should no flags be carried into “battle?” Should the Confederate uniforms be banned? Maybe only Union soldiers should participate in the reenactment?

Or, maybe the Confederate soldiers should just carry this flag:

A flag blows in the wind above a McDonald's restaurant in Encinitas

Via ABC27.

Confederate flags and the soldiers carrying them came to Gettysburg on July 1-3, 1863.

The history books tell us it was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

Historians tell us it was the turning point for the North.

Every year, participants from around country flock to Gettysburg to reenact the famous battle.

There’s the blue.

And the gray.

The flag of the North.

And the South, which has state Rep. Vanessa Lowery Brown (D-Philadelphia) fighting mad.

“I’ve been to a lot of reenacting and the reenacting does not tell the stories accurately,” Brown said.

Brown recently protested a Confederate flag in a display at the state Capitol and Gov. Tom Wolf ordered it removed. Brown says it’s a symbol of hatred and murder which wasn’t mentioned in the Capitol display and likely won’t be on the battlefield reenactment.

“If they’re not going to tell the story properly, then they should not be displayed and they should not be reenacted unless they’re going to tell the truth,” she said….

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