BY GLENN GARVIN/MIAMI HERALD
To art majors, it’s a saltire, a heraldic symbol. To theologians, it’s a St. Andrew’s Cross, named for the Christian apostle who was nailed upon it. To a lot of us, it’s just a big red X. But is that thing criss-crossing Florida’s state flag really a racist symbol of the old Confederacy? Continue Reading…
Indian River Guardian 
The history of this flag really dates back when it fully represented the Confederacy and a nation defending “Slavery”. The war is over, there is nothing good or any reason of pride that could justify the flying of this standard,….. anywhere in this nation! It should remain as a “relic” in a museum, to remind everyone who sees it displayed, that this nation was divided, by brother and brother, by so many families during a time of Civil War. The only flag representing all of us since that time is the “Stars and Stripes! All of us must stand together as a nation and do the right thing, to continue to use the Confederate Flag is an insult to freedom and should be laid to rest alongside the defeated Confederacy! It is an embarrassment for this once part of American history to be resurrected to represent evil and bigotry, it has its proper place in the annuls of American History.