Feelings on displaying the Confederate flag on your POV or person while on a military installation?

OK- 1. Born in the South, but my family were immigrants who fought in Civil War from up North. 2. It is a flag, and part of our history- why delete it?. 3. Read your history for the 20 years leading up to the Civil War- the only reason slavery had any part in the War was the South was losing fair representation in Congress and tariff controls. 4. CSA veterans are recognized by Congress as American Veterans. 5. The Civil War ended over 150 years ago, there are no slaves still living in the Nation. 6. All people should be offended by slavery- yet almost every nation had slaves. 7. Most slaves were sold by African tribal leaders, to Arab slave traders. 8. There were slaves throughout the US prior to the War- to include up North, and almost 3000 black men owned slaves. 9. Whites were slaves in the New World some 80 years prior to blacks. 10. Why are American Blacks upset over slavery- Celts were slaves to Rome over a 1000 yrs before them and were slaves for almost 400 years- when Blacks in America were only slaves for around 150 years.

The real problem is that we as a people are unable to sit and have a conversation about it all without someone becoming offended and it becoming an EO issue or personal distrust growing between members that cannot afford that kind of animosity where distrust can get someone hurt or killed. I have seen and been part of this conversation many times in the last 26 years and it never ends well because neither side is willing to really hear the other opinion and it almost always makes the problem worse for the near future. We cannot have a serious conversation because or history is emotional and poorly taught and more often than not it is taught with a one sided POV and no consideration is given to the rest of story. If we are going to start making emotional decisions that will personally effect a large portion of the military it may not go as well as many think since an extremely large portion of our military and its bases are located in the area we intend to tell they can no longer take pride in their history and culture. U.S. units that have Confederate Battle Streamers on their colors will have to be stripped off and I know a lot of Guardsmen of several colors that will take that pretty serious. This will continue to be an issue until we become mature enough to openly discuss it and there are way to many profiting from top to bottom to allow that to happen

Do you support and defend enemies of the United States of America? it's really that simple.

Then he is in the wrong Army. The people who fought for that flag killed AMERICAN soldiers

I used to have a rebel flag license plate on the front of my vehicle that I drove onto a base in Oklahoma in the 1990s. I never had a single issue or cross word about it from anybody. My purpose for it was to show that I was from the South. What someone else's view of it was doesn't matter. It's my vehicle. Someone else can choose to attach any meaning they want to ANY symbol out there.

I should not have to change what I have simply because someone else chooses to attach a negative meaning to something. What's next, folks of the Muslim faith being offended by and demanding the removal of Christian crosses? That's right, we already have that. Don't you folks realize the Pandora's box you have opened?

It's basically like someone else on here said when they made the comparison of wearing a Red Sox jersey to a Yankees game. Just because I like the Red Sox does not mean that I hate the Yankees.

Might as well be flying an IsIs Flag or a Nazi Flag. I wonder what this traitor does during the National Anthem. I guess he strips

Display whatever you want, so long as you're honest about what it stands for...

Very well written response 1LT Sandy Annala. It allows me to see things from different angles.

It has taken the Army years to understand that Regiments are families and not machines. For years the Army was trapped in the World War Two Individual Replacement System which looked at people as parts of a machine and not as human beings. The British Army never made that mistake they understood the emotional attachment that soldiers have for their Regiments. I served with the Fifth Cavalry Regiment which has a long and proud history and now the Army has finally realized will keep people going when any “rational” person would run like hell.
I live in Virginia and down here I am referred to as a "d*mnedyankee" and that is said as one word. Of course it really doesn't help my case that I wear a U.S. Cavalry Stetson hat with the crossed sabers marked with my regimental number and yellow cord and tell them that I am part of the Yankee Army of Occupation. I love southerners I have almost as much fun yanking their chains as Texans. Of course Texans have as wild a sense of humor as I do. I made a wise crack that “If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell.” Someone asked this Texan if he was not offended by my remark, he replied “Of course not damn a man who won’t stand up for his home state!”
I enlisted in the United States Army at age 17 and served with the Air Cavalry Division in Vietnam so I come with what we call the “standard issue Cavalry smart mouth”. My family comes from Spain and my first langue is Spanish although I was born in the United States. My grandfather, my father and my uncle Willie were also Cavalrymen so the “standard issue Cavalry smart mouth” is also genetic as well as professional. . My mother was crying that I was going to die in Vietnam if you have never seen a Spanish langue soap opera you have no idea of the production that is. So my grandfather said “My grandson who are you going to war with?” I replied “The First Squadron of the Fifth Cavalry Regiment grandfather. My grandfather said “Julia do not be concerned the Fifth Cavalry Regiment is a magnificent regiment I fought them in Porto Rico they fight like tigers led by jackasses but still they fight like tigers. Honestly what could I say but “Gee grandfather, I did not know you knew my officers.” My grandfather, my father and my uncle Willie and I all started laughing my got this Queen Victoria “we are not amused look on her face and muttered “canallas” which can be loosely translated as swine which made the four of us laugh even more. There is a legend that George IV (George Augustus Frederick; 12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830) is reputed to have asked his George Bryan "Beau" Brummell (7 June 1778 – 30 March 1840) of the Tenth Royal Hussars why the British Army had cavalry regiments his reply was “Why Sir? To lend a little tone to what otherwise would be nothing more than a vulgar brawl.”

it should be up to the Post Commander as to whether or not something like that should be allowed or not.
and an article from 2015 in USAToday about it says a lot about how the DoD is handling that issue.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/06/25/military-ok-confederate-flag-now/29307077/