One week ago yesterday this blog reported about the attempts of a Travis County, TX judge, Sarah Eckhardt, threatening to get county officials to pull support for the Veterans Day parade in the city of Austin if parade organizers did not force Confederate heritage groups to leave their Battle Flags at home when marching in the parade.
This past Tuesday, county officials met to decide the matter. Also involved in the meeting were representatives of a Texas-based Confederate heritage group (The Descendants of Confederate Veterans), the NAACP, and the chairman of the independent committee in charge of the parade.
After hearing from those representing all sides of the issue, the county commission decided that this year Confederate heritage groups will be permitted to fly the flag during the parade, but that the county will seek for ways to limit it's administrative support without adversely affecting the event.
This sounds to me like a temporary retreat, where our opposition plans to run and regroup before launching an all out assault. If permitted, those who seek to revise history will seek to change perceptions in the minds of the people and attempt to swindle them into believing lies about us, our ancestors, and the cause our ancestors fought for. Those of us who support using Confederate flags and symbols in honoring our brave Confederate ancestors must continue to stay on the offense!
Unfortunately this is not the only Veterans Day celebration where our ancestors face being discriminated against. In Florissant, MO, a suburb of St. Louis, city "leaders" are barring the local Sons of Confederate Veterans from flying the flag at their town's Veterans Day parade.
So, my fellow Compatriots, the war of ideas rages on! Now is the time to harden our resolve & make a firm stand against those who would seek to revise history into a perversion, and unjustly tarnish the heroic military service of our Confederate ancestors in the War Between the States!
In closing, I'd like to say thanks to all who are reading this blog! If you like what is being published here, feel free to share this on social media so we can spread the truth of history to as large an audience as possible. Also, if you have any questions or comments, feel free to leave them in the field below.
DEO VINDICE!
- Jonathan McCleese
Sergeant-at-Arms, SCV Camp #1321
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