In 2006, on the International Space station the symbol of America's southland flew in space! by Mark Vogl
(conservative)
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Most Southerners, most Americans would be shocked to learn that during the War for Southern Independence, 1861 - 1865, the Confederate Naval ensign, the flag many know as the Rebel flag, or the Crimson Cross actually flew in harbors in South America, Europe, the Caribbean, and even the ports of China! The Confederacy's last truly successful commerce raider, the Shenandoah actually operated between Alaska and Russia, in the Bering Sea, savaging the American Whaling fleet in the last months of the war. If you are interested in learning about the Confederate Navy I suggest to you, "Service Afloat" by Admiral Rafael Semmes, C.S.N., and the "History of the Confederate States Navy" by J. Thomas Scharf, a graduate of the Confederate Naval Academy (yep, they had one) and veteran of the C.S.N. Scharf is the father of Confederate naval history.
The C.S.N., Confederate States Navy, was as daring and bold, as ingenious and tenacious as their land counterparts in the Army of Northern Virginia, Armies of Tennessee and Mississippi, or the 48 Irish Catholic Confederates under the command of Lt. Dick Dowling, who defeated and repulsed a Union invasion armada of more than twenty warships and five thousand Yankee infantry at Sabine Pass, Texas in September, 1863. A stunning victory that revived Southern morale after the twin defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg.
So there is much history covered in dust in the libraries of the United States which might reignite the glory and nobility of the South.
But, a really obvious example of modern day revisionism is the fact that so few people worldwide, and especially in America, heard the news that the Confederate Naval ensign actually orbited the earth in the International Space Station in 2006.
I don't know, I don't watch much main stream television, so may be the flying of the Confederate battle flag at the international space station is old news! May be you all have already heard this story, told back in 2006 by MSN News.
It seems a Russian astronaut carried ten Confederate flags to the station where they were photographed, stamped with the seal of the I.S.S., autographed and returned to earth for eventual sale at auction by EBAY. Of course once the left discovered this, the story briefly flared like a sun spot, and the Russian astronaut was chastised. He denied knowing the meaning of the flag. While the Confederate battle flag flew over many a battlefield during the South's fight for independence, modern day liberals have designated the flag as a racist symbol. While the American flag flies just as prominently at KKK rallies and other white supremacist groups, only the Crimson Cross is selectively shown as the symbol for these radical groups.
The modern rise of the Crimson Cross has not been just at the International Space Station. That flag flew at Berlin when the wall came down, and in Afghanistan as the Russians were driven out. It is an international symbol of opposition to oppression. Something most southerners should be very proud of. But, in the globalist America Culture War, where political correctness dominates the editors' pens and censorship, the Southern symbol is reviled.
Yet every once in a while, in places you would not expect, there it is, snapping in the breeze.
And in an America, moving ever further from its’ origins, from the words and spirit of the Declaration of Independence and the original federalism which recognized the states as the creator of the union, the Confederate battle flag is like the roach the P.C. can't kill. It just keeps waving all across the South, and in many places outside of Dixie. Even, at the I.S.S., International Space Station! Look up at night, may be you will see it.
Would not surprise me at all to see it in New Hampshire, though that won’t be reported. How embarrassing, a symbol of liberty flying in such a place.
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