Modern Johnny Rebs are much more sensitive and paint their stuff with the more stealthy Stars and Bars.
Ah, the Confederacy. The nation within the nation. I love the pics of Kennedy at the Dallas airport with all the little kids waving the battle flag. They have been scrubbed from the internet like Neffertitti's head.
But it does have other uses, such as at Shuri Castle during WWII:
Before the war, it was designated a National Treasure, but during the war, the Japanese military set up its headquarters underground at the castle, and beginning on May 25, 1945, the American battleship Mississippi shelled it for three days[2]. On May 27 it burned.[3] After the battle a Confederate Battle Flag (the only one available, which personally belonged to the company commander, who was from South Carolina) was hoisted above the castle by the Marine self entitled "Rebel Company" (Company A of the 5th Marine Regiment). It was visible for over two miles and stayed above the castle for three days until being removed by General Simon B. Buckner, Jr. (son of Confederate General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Sr.) saying Americans from all parts of America helped win the battle.
