The Rebel Flag’s Last Day
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23 days after the massacre of nine people inside Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church South Carolina officials are preparing Friday to remove the Confederate Flag quickly, simply, and in a dignified manner.
The state planned a quick and quiet ceremony at 10 a.m. to remove the rebel banner that has flown for over a half-century. South Carolina’s leaders first flew the battle flag over the Statehouse dome in 1961 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Civil War.
After the removal ceremony a special armored van will transport the flag to the Confederate relic room, where it eventually will be stored in a multimillion-dollar shrine as a part of the compromise to get the bill passed.
States across the nation are parting ways with their Confederate symbols as well. The Alabama Capitol has removed the rebel flag, and the U.S. House voted that the flag can no longer fly at historic federal cemeteries in the Deep South.
In Memphis a city council committee wants to move a statue as well as the remains of Civil War hero and slave trader Nathan Bedford Forrest out of a well-known park, and in Alaska officials want a new moniker for a U.S. Census district named for Confederate Gen. Wade Hampton.
South Carolina Governor Haley signed the bill with 13 pens. Nine of them went to the families of the victims.
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