<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"><FONT style="RIGHT: auto" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I don't think you can call the people that fought in the Civil War Anti-Americans. Most US wars up until that time would have been lost without the help of many of the Confederate officers. People just had a different vision of what America was about. Many US Presidents and Vice Presidents sided on either side of that war. It is simply that most of the people in power in the South believed that the power resided in the states, and most of the people in the North thought thought the power should reside in the federal government. <BR style="RIGHT: auto" class=yui-cursor></FONT></SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><FONT style="RIGHT: auto" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">People in the United State back then didn't think of themselves as US citizens, they thought of themselves a Virginians and Georgians (which had been around a lot longer then the US) and they didn't recall giving any outside government the right to force their will on their state (probably because they actually never did). </FONT></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><FONT style="RIGHT: auto" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">If the United Nations forced its political will on the US today, don't you think we might be divided on that issue and still be able to call ourselves Americ<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR>ans? </FONT></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Lynn McCollough <lmccollough@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> vision2020@moscow.com <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thursday, July 12, 2012 7:30 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [Vision2020] Moles and mole hills<BR></FONT></DIV><BR>When I made the original post, I was very aware that the flag in<BR>question was part of a historical display.<BR>I was questioning, and upset by the fact that it appeared to me to be<BR>the most prominently displayed flag in the lobby of my courthouse.<BR>Tom's pictures
were taken either with a flash or the light was very<BR>different from when I was in the lobby. When I was there, the flags on<BR>poles, of the US and Idaho and been pushed to a very shaded corner,<BR>and they were not well lit at all.<BR>BTW, the flag that bothered me is not THE confederate flag. It is the<BR>stars and bars, the historic battle flag used in armed conflict with<BR>the USA.<BR>This flag only represents anti-US sentiment. It was not the official<BR>flag of the confederacy. Look it up.<BR>Thank you for the analogy of what single flag would best represent the<BR>European theater of WW2. I do not want that flag displayed either.<BR>Yes, my father was a WW2 vet.<BR><BR>=======================================================<BR>List services made available by First Step Internet,<BR>serving the communities of the <SPAN id=misspell-2 class=mark>Palouse</SPAN> since 1994.<BR>
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