Sunday letters: Honor those who made US, not those who left it

I am a middle-age white woman raised in the South, with ancestors who fought for the South. The Confederate flag stands for a failed attempt for 11 states to have a country separate from the United States of America.

Imagine the world if the South had won the Civil War started over property, slaves.

South Carolina has much to be proud of, including our role in the American Revolution, which gave birth to the United States. To give honor to a period of time when South Carolina seceded from the union to form a new country is an insult to all the good men and women of South Carolina who have fought and died for the United States. We do them dishonor by glorifying a flag that divided this great country.

Honor Sen. Rev Clementa Pinckney and the others who lost their lives because of the hate this flag symbolizes, and remove the Confederate flag from all S.C. government property now.

Aiken