Letters: Battle lines drawn over Confederate flag

John Rosati’s letter [Travel, Aug. 14] claiming that government organizations have nearly “succeeded in removing the Civil War from our history ... piously and ignorantly objecting to flying the Confederate flag in the South” brutally disregards the racist implications of such a cherished relic of the past.

We as a nation are trying to heal from this atrocity, not further divide it.

I have been through every state in the South and, believe me, the endless roadside monuments, plaques, museums and other commemorative monuments richly describe the Civil War era in great detail. It is hardly “removed from history,” as the letter writer claims.

To “describe how biased, unintelligent and narrow-minded elected officials are [today],” convoluting and excising our past, is mean-spirited, inappropriate and most important, inaccurate.

Kyle Kimbrell

Playa del Rey

The July 31 Sand Creek Massacre article [“Where Sorrow Meets Solace,” by Thomas Curwen] was both informative and interesting, but the subsequent letter is bewildering when letter writer Rosati says Americans have “piously and ignorantly objected to flying of the Confederate flag in the South.” He writes that the issue is not who lost but “that those people [Confederate soldiers] lost their lives because they believed in the cause.”

Should we also fly flags for 1940 German storm troopers, Japanese kamikaze pilots, North Korean and North Vietnamese soldiers for deaths of those believing in their “cause”?

John Loggins

Rancho Palos Verdes

The letter writer believes it is ignorant to protest the flying of the Confederate flag in the South.

He conveniently ignores that fact that this flag is a symbol of slavery and is repulsive to the descendants of slaves as well as to many progressive Americans.

Bob Lentz

Sylmar

Lost and miraculously found

We were recently at Sea World, where my daughter accidentally left her billfold in the bathroom. It was gone when she returned.

We fretted through a show, and then she decided to check lost and found. Lo and behold, it was there, intact with everything — credit cards, ID and cash.

That was the Miracle.

Milvi Vanderslice

Newport Beach