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struggle4progress

(118,314 posts)
Wed Aug 5, 2015, 12:51 AM Aug 2015

Walton hoists new Confederate flag (again)

Posted Aug. 4, 2015 at 3:08 PM
Updated at 3:09 PM

Walton County is flying its third Confederate flag in a week over a memorial at the county courthouse.

A banner with 13 stars was raised Tuesday to replace one similar but with seven stars that had flown since last week at a memorial for the county’s southern Civil War dead.

Both flags replaced the Confederate battle flag, which Walton County Commissioners decided to take down July 29 ...


http://www.nwfdailynews.com/article/20150804/NEWS/150809882

If there's one thing Walton is full of, that would be heritage! Which is why it would just be wrong in so many different ways to ask them to take down the old confederate battle flag that represents ... Wait a minute ... Well, OK, to honor the tradition and history that Walton is so full of, that confederate flag will come down and this one will go up in its place, showing ... Hold on ... What? Again? ... Oh, all right ... As we were saying, Walton is so full of ...

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