Pentagon to ban all Confederate flags on military bases despite Trump's objections

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The Pentagon will prohibit the Confederate battle flag from US military installations despite Donald Trump's insistence that flying the symbol is 'freedom of speech' amid a national reckoning over

's insistence that flying the symbol is"freedom of speech" amid a national reckoning over racist icons and political battles to remove the flag across the US.says"the flags we fly must accord with the military imperatives of good order and discipline, treating all our people with dignity and respect, and rejecting divisive symbols" – but he does not explicitly mention the Confederate battle flag.

 

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Kris_Sacrebleu The people who actually have to do the fighting and dying might not want to see traitors honored.

Kris_Sacrebleu Beautiful let's proudly fly the flags of our nation not those of a long gone traitorous rebel group

Kris_Sacrebleu How is that not already a thing?

Where is my full VA Disability. All Politicians Are in this for GREED and POWER. Great Empires Rose, Only To Fall Due To Their IGNORANCE, GREED, and COMPLACENCY.🥋 RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED Leonardo Otero United States Marine Corps

You can still buy and wear a hammer and sickle t shirt.

Why is this banning taking place? Jethro needs the flag for his pickup truck!

Trump hating is owned by KGB Spy Alexander Lebedev

2020 and we can finally ban the flag of a racist treasonous uprising from 150 years ago.

yes but let's not ban Guantanamo

The impending civil war battle lines are being drawn.

Haha suck it Donny

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