Currently, the National Park Service allows individuals to place Confederate flags on Civil War veterans’ graves on Confederate Memorial Day, according to The Hill.
The House on Tuesday also passed an amendment that would prohibit concession stores on National Park Service land from selling items featuring the Confederate flag, according to The Hill. The National Park Service in June asked that stores refrain from selling Confederate flags after numerous businesses stopped selling the flags in the wake of the shooting at a historic black church in South Carolina.
They should never have been allowed. The CSA considered itself a separate nation from the USA, a nation built from sedition. The flag they cherish is the symbol of a foreign government that rebelled and waged war against our country, killed thousands of our citizens, and actively encouraged the assassination of our President after surrendering.