Reply #77: I've never had a confederate flag .......

[ScaRBama]

and I've lived in Alabama all my life. To me it's just part of history and nothing more. I can't speak for others but only myself.
A lot of history runs deep in my family from fighting in the Civil War. My Grandfather who lived to be 99 years old told me many stories of his Father who fought in the Civil War. He was just a dirt poor sharecropper who had nothing to fight for but the fear of the Union Army pushing into the south and killing he and his family.
He fought at the Battle Of Shiloh and until the day he died he carried a bullet in him from that battle. He returned from that stupid war and still had the same thing he had when he left....NOTHING. I can see why some think of the flag as a way of respect for those loved ones who died in that war. When they died at that time in history.....THAT WAS THEIR COUNTRY.
But for purposes other than that I see no need for it and never have.