Confederate Flag

Regardless of what the Confederate flag used to mean to those hapless and misguided soldiers of the Confederacy in the Civil War, the meaning is clear to those who fly it today (letters, June 27). This rhetorical catch-all of “states’ rights” is, and always has been, a political device to legitimize state-sponsored apartheid and personal bigotry. In this sense, even the memory of those fighting rebels is dishonored. They believed their cause was just. We now know it wasn’t and that they were the cannon fodder for a group of elitist anarchists.

There is no cause left to fight for that needs the Stars and Bars as a battle emblem. Jefferson Davis and his cronies sought to break apart our union, and that needs no memorial. The flag itself does not need to be banned. It does need to be given its proper place in history; however, that does not include flying as a symbol of patriotic members of the United States.

BOB LOZA

Burbank