Not The Confederate Flag?
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Published 2015-06-26
All Comments (21)
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blue and white : Too yankyish. Blue white and red : Yea that'll work.
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Jesus! No wonder the south lost.. they had more graphic designers than soldiers.
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The Stainless Banner looks like someone made the battle flag in Paint, but forgot to resize the rest of the image
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"The flag looks like surrender flag! Put red on it!" 36 days later..
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Maybe the real confederate flag was the friends we made along the way
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All this could have been avoided if they simply turned off friendly fire
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Out of all the tragedies of the U.S. Civil War, the ruining of two really attractive flag designs is pretty far down the ladder of awfulness, but it's still on there. From a flag-design standpoint, the Confederate battle flag and naval jack are just about perfect. They stick to three colors and are fairly simple, but still present a striking, distinct look.
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I love how passionate Grey is about flags.
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So my friend told me a story about a German exchange student visiting here in Virginia. The German saw a Confederate flag, and upon remembering what it meant, he remarked, "Oh yeah, you guys have Nazis, too."
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If you're gonna rebel, use a flag that's not similar to your enemys. It gives you good luck.
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Fun fact, the Betsy Ross flag wasn't used that much in the Revolutionary War. It was around and used here and there, but the official flag at the time was the Francis Hopkinson flag. Most flags that were flown in battle were usually individual localized flags flown by various groups of Colonists. Like the New England flag, the Green Mountain Boys flag, the South Carolina flag, etc.
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This video has been around longer than the Confederacy's existence.
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I tried to educate a friend on this a few days ago and they unfriended me on facebook.
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1:45 in the writing business they call that foreshadowing
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"This is a cross" Me: "Well, a saltire, more accurately."
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2:06 ”Can no longer be mistaken for the surrender flag” Yeah they made it so that there’s a big L.
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I guess you could say the navy refused to use navy blue on their flag
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Grey, we discussed this. You're not supposed to out Southerners who quietly display the Bonnie Blue in discreet locations to honor 83.3% of an entire generation of their non-slave owning family who was killed fighting a rich man's war. Hypothetically... of course.
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This video has been out longer than the Confederacy lasted.
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Such an amazing design in its battle and national flags, and such passion in many of its troops, all for cause that ultimately wanted the exact wrong thing. Even if that wasn’t the case, there wouldn’t have been peace between either country if the South had won. You might as well compare it to how the Greek city-states went back to killing each other not long after fighting the Persians.
