Major U.S. flag makers to stop making Confederate flags

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Reggie VandenBosch, vice president of sales at privately owned Valley Forge Flag, said the Pennsylvania-based company came to the decision as pressure grew on South Carolina to remove the banner from outside the State House in Columbia.

Annin Flagmakers, based in Roseland, New Jersey, announced that it too would stop making the flag used by the pro-slavery Confederate states during the 1861-65 American Civil War.

Eder Flag Manufacturing, based in Wisconsin, also said it would no longer sell or manufacture Confederate flags because of the Charleston shooting.
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"We hope that this decision will show our support for those affected by the recent events in Charleston and, in some small way, help to foster racial unity and tolerance in our country," Valley Forge Flag said in a statement.


http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0P327E20150624?irpc=932

[tblue37]

1. KnR. nt

[Spitfire of ATJ]

2. At least they can get one made in China.

[lovemydog]

4. Ha! True!

[lovemydog]

3. Good. It's time they acknowledge we're a union.