Keep it flying!
That flag represents the South:
her people (living and dead),
those whose blood stains it,
those whose tears dampen it,
those whose sweat moistens it,
all are owners of it, holders of it,
keepers of the flag and defenders
of the cause of holy liberty.
– David Cooksey, AlaReb
Let our banners
fly!
By Lourie N. Formby
III
Philadelphia, Mississippi
Our banners were made by the ladies at home,
and
raised on court houses and capitol domes.
Throughout the
South they flew in the breeze,
and were carried to battle
the Northern armies.
Though tattered, faded, bloodied and torn,
they
stood for States’ Rights and Southrons unborn.
The North
called us rebels – traitors for our
Cause.
They invaded our homeland and broke many
laws.
They’ve written the history of their "Civil
War."
Our truth is erased and mentioned no
more.
They burned, raped, pillaged and caused
misery,
supposedly as "liberators" to set the slaves
free.
Old Honest Abe "freed" them with no authority,
in
hopes by so doing an uprising he’d see.
To ruins they
ravaged our homes and our lands,
our women and children were
left at their hands.
New England doctors still censor this truth.
They
keep teaching garbage these days to our youth
as the modern
day Southerner sells out in shame,
forgetting his heroes in
graves without names.
No more holidays for Davis, Jackson and Lee,
nor
public flags honoring our beloved Confederacy.
Manassas,
Vicksburg, the dread "March to the Sea"
for a modern day
Southerner mean not a thing.
We’re beaten and battered by scalawag
success,
called racist and bigot in the
media and press.
This noise about rednecks and klansmen’s a
game
by liberals maintaining we’re all quite the
same.
It’s his heritage this ol’ redneck’s here to
recoup
when correcting the Yankee: we’re not a "hate
group."
To arms, fellow Southrons! Sound the battle
cry.
Stop "political correctness." Let our banners
fly!