(My ancestors’ unit, by the way.) And I know that even the Daughters of the Confederacy advocated not using that flag anymore back in the 1920’s. It was the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia. I also know it wasn’t even the Confederate flag.

I have Confederate soldiers for ancestors, and I’ve never felt the need to honor them by flying that flag. And I lived in a state where that Confederate emblem was on the flag for far too long.

My college campus had a small Confederate cemetery on it and every Confederate Memorial Day (do you know when that is, by the way?) they’d be decorated with those flags. I grew up in the South where I saw plenty of Confederate flags. A place where 150 years ago that flag would have been seen as a symbol of treason. A place where locals organized early against slavery and led the charge against it across the country. Here we are in a northern town, a place that gave her sons up to the Union Army and lost them on the battlefields of the Civil War. I ask this because I’m not so sure you do. Part of me wanted to ask obvious questions: You know you are in New Hampshire, right? And, you know New Hampshire was not a part of the Confederacy? The American flag was, incongruously (and in violation of the flag code), in the center. Two large Confederate flags were attached to the back of it, waving in the wind. I saw your truck parked in front of the Rite-Aid, right by the Dunkin Donuts.

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