Big laff, Minn. and Virginia still fighting (sort of) the Civil War

[packman]

"... a fight between Minnesota and Virginia over a captured Confederate flag which has been going on for more than a century. “In the state of Minnesota, there is but one Confederate icon: a ratty old flag, no longer on public display,” Hannah Jones writes. “It came into Minnesotan hands in 1863, when First Minnesota Private Marshall Sherman captured it during the bloodbath at Gettysburg.”

And this is the part I love:

Virginia has been asking for it back—even suing for it, as a bunch of Virginian re-enactors tried to do in 1998. Then Attorney General Hubert Humphrey III told them to go fly a kite.

In 2000, Virginia legislators got involved, asking Governor Jesse Ventura to return their captured icon.

“Why?” he asked. “We won.”


https://www.sayanythingblog.com/entry/minnesota-has-been-refusing-to-return-a-captured-confederate-flag-to-virginia-for-more-than-a-century/

[sl8]

1. The First Minnesota Regiment suffered more than 80% casualties at Gettysburg.

https://www.twincities.com/2017/08/20/minnesota-has-a-confederate-symbol-and-it-is-going-to-keep-it/

[underpants]

2. I had never heard of this

Hilarious

[keithbvadu2]

3. Thank God republicans won that war.

[malthaussen]

4. There have been several examples of this sort of thing.

I don't exactly see why a trophy of war should be returned to those who lost it. They're lucky we gave them their state back (well, minus West Virginia, that is).

-- Mal

[NNadir]

5. We are all still fighting the Civil War, with the parties having switched roles.

The Civil War was about violent racists attempting to overthrow the Government after losing control of it.

We're not very far from there now, 157 years after the last outbreak, are we?