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dbackjon

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Tue Nov 13, 2018, 01:27 PM Nov 2018

Remember this Gem from Baraboo six years ago?

https://www.wiscnews.com/baraboonewsrepublic/news/local/use-of-confederate-flag-as-memorial-questioned/article_ec984f30-6661-11e1-bc9e-0019bb2963f4.html

Use of Confederate flag as memorial questioned

When Austin Smothers and a few others recently decided to place Confederate flags on their pickup trucks to honor the death of a friend, they also raised a few eyebrows.

“We never meant it to be a racist thing to anybody,” said Smothers, a Baraboo High School junior. “We wanted to honor our friend, Joshua Blum, who had just died. We wanted to show we cared for him.”

Blum died Feb. 20 in a crash after the pickup he was driving overturned in Marquette County. Blum’s father, Tim, said his son didn’t wear his seat belt and that’s what killed him. However, a passenger in the truck wore a seat belt and survived.

Smothers said he and the others at Baraboo High School often drove their trucks around the city with the Confederate flag waving in the back.




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Remember this Gem from Baraboo six years ago? (Original Post) dbackjon Nov 2018 OP
If this area hasn't cared to change for awhile, I doubt the latest Nazi move will prompt any lunasun Nov 2018 #1
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