Except it is still part of the State Flag of Mississippi, no? A public university wore it on their uniform at one time while referring to themselves as “the Rebels”. I see what you are saying, but the damn thing is intertwined with the government.
Right. They are enemy combatants. A real good reason why they shouldn't have ever been allowed statues of their enemy combatant generals to be raised on American soil. Wars have consequences and the losers don't get to make the rules.
Yes I always love the “Way of life” argument so much, because the way of life was entirely built upon...Ding ding ding!
Thanks to the Marshall plan that replaced all their factories etc and put our businesses especially steel at a competitive disadvantage. Gifts of billions.
Not to mention we fire-bombed Tokyo until it was one big cinder and then proceeded to dropped the only two nuclear weapons ever used against a people, and after that we occupied and essentially ruled their country for several decades. Guess what, the Japanese modeled a lot of their industry and lifestyle after America. No "get the fuck outta here, Yankee1" (well, aside from Okinawa, seeing as half that island is covered in USMC camps and young jar heads regularly tear up the place).
