Demand the VMFA return the Confederate Battle Flags to the portico of the
Confederate War Memorial
Confederate flags had flown over the grounds
since the opening of the Old Soldiers Home in Richmond, VA in 1885. They were
placed there by Confederate Veterans, to memorialize the Confederate dead, and
honor the living. On the eve of the Sesquicentennial Commemoration of the War
Between the States, June 1st, 2010, Confederate Battle Flags were forcibly
removed from the Confederate War Memorial/Pelham Chapel by a restriction in the
lease renewal, at the insistence of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
As citizens of Virginia and descendants of
Confederate soldiers who gallantly answered Virginia’s call to defend her, we
demand that the VMFA remove these blatantly prejudicial restrictions and allow
the Confederate Battle Flags to once again fly on the Confederate War Memorial.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/918/949/849/
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