What Image is Represented by The Stars and Bars

What Image is Represented by The Stars and Bars

The Civil War was America's bloodiest conflict.  The unprecedented violence of battles such as Shiloh, Antietam, Stones River, and Gettysburg shocked citizens and international observers alike.  Nearly as many men died in captivity during the Civil War as were killed in the whole of the Vietnam War.  Hundreds of thousands died of disease.  Roughly 2% of the population, an estimated 620,000 men, lost their lives in the line of duty.  Taken as a percentage of today's population, the toll would have risen as high as 6 million souls. http://www.civilwar.org/education/civil-war-casualties.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/

When you fly the stars and bars what is it you are saying what is the statement? 

When I see the Stars and Bars this is the image that comes to mind.

When I see the stars and bars I see Atlanta on fire, I see Arlington Robert E Lee's Plantation ... taken from him and turned into our national cemetery so he could see the tombstones from his porch, etc. and I see Sherman a name that still strikes fear in the hearts of southerners to this day. I see Sherman, saying "damn, what do I have to do to get these MFs to take that shit down -- this rag, this symbol of tyranny and death, a symbol that defies a reasoned  defense, a symbol that defies dignity, human decency, and in fact God Himself. The stars and bars are an affront to God himself -- Sherman was only God's messenger!

Think of all of the men and boys. Think of the grieving families. Think of the men near death as the "Doctors" lopped off limbs sawed into  as they lingered near death with no antiseptics and few analgesics.  And the the stench from the fly ridden piles of useless limbs just out side the "Doctor's" tent. Think of the screams from the battlefields. If you can't see it for it represents a land destroyed, defeated, and desolated; then see it for what it represents from a  Northern perspective.

 Next time you think you have a "right" to fly the Stars and Bars reflect on this -- YOU DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT TO FLY THE STARS AND BARS -- we gave our blood as well as the life of our 16th President precisely to deny you that right! 

We are the ones who sacrificed, we are the ones who put our very existence on the line to deny you that right. 

Honor us and show some respect for the fact that we sacrificed because we had to crush you to deny you the "right" to fly the stars and bars!

"Your brothers, sons fathers, uncles set fire to your homes and businesses the night they fired on Fort Sumter that fire eventually reached your homes," William Tecumseh Sherman  

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Fly the Stars and Bars? Sherman Said NO!

As this video points out General Sherman was a great leader, a master of logistics and strategic innovator. His method of warfare never before  seen crushed you and denied you the right to fly your flag. This strategy of destroying the enemy's capacity to make weapons, transport weapons closed supply lines and  destroyed the enemy's industrial capacity.

Sherman's strategy saved lives even confederate lives and forever changed warfare. Sherman destroyed the enemy's ability to make war and to live comfortably while fighting.  He didi not kill men so much as take territory  and destroy the industrial infrastructure. Yes the industrial infrastructure the very homes and plantations that the enemey used to produce clothes and munitions for your soldiers, the food used to feed the soldiers.  

He also destroyed the enemy's since of well-being, as Lee tried to do when he attacked Gettysburg in Pennsylvania.  

This type of warfare was new and effective. Sherman the great innovator, brought the discomfort of war into the very homes of the enemy.  His methods have become a mainstay of modern warfare Sherman's goal was to destroy the enemy's will to fight.  And it succeeded, Sherman won, and what he told you in doing so is that you have no right to fly that flag anywhere, anytime for any reason. Sherman himself denied you that right. 

It was Sherman more than any other General in the war who was focused on a specific startgey that would end the war and bring victory to the the central government in Washing DC the union, and the flag of us all The  Stars and Stripes

In the course of using this method the enemy was of course angered one because the homes he destroyed were used to create and manufacture the very materials of war --  shoes uniforms in fact their homes of southerners were used to carryout the south's ability to wage war. In destroying these and taking livestock, Sherman was destroying every capacity of the enemy to wage war as well as feeding his own army.  And he was denying your right to fly that flag.

Southerners of course conveniently overlook that fact that their very homes the palantaions that supported a morally wrong way of life were also being used to wage war. They decry Sherman and his tactics a focus only on the fact that he destroyed there homes not on the fact that these homes these plantations were being used to support their armies that had just months before marched into the North and gettysburg. Sherman was destroying  plantations  really factories supporting the war effort. Additionally, he was making it clear that the stars and bars were never to be flown again. 


At appopatix, the flags were surrendered. Your officers can keep their side arms, but not their flags.
The formal ceremony and collection of weapons took place on April 12 under the supervision of Brig. Gen. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.  As ranks of Confederate soldiers came forward to hand over their weapons and flags, Chamberlain ordered his men to salute their defeated adversaries as a gesture of respect.  Other witnesses also reported that interactions between Yankees and Rebels were almost entirely kind and friendly.   (http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/appomattox-courthouse/appomattox-court-house-history/appomattoxcourthouse.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/p://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/appomattox-courthouse/appomattox-court-house-history/appomattoxcourthouse.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/)

They:  your brothers, cousins fathers grandfathers and uncles forever denied you the right to fly the stars and bars! In fact they you brothers, cousins, fathers, and grandfathers made flying the stars and bars an act of treason.

We are Americans. 

We are not Americans with a

 legacy

 to the Confederate States of America. 

We are 

Americans, we as one fly and stand under the Stars

 and Strips only.  To stand for and under any other 

flag is treason and should be punished as such.


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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down


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