Confederate and other flags
By now nearly every American understands that it is way past time to take down the Confederate battle flag, whose appearance outside of museums should have ended when Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia surrendered April 10, 1865. Confederates lowered the flag then, and their spiritual descendants should accept that. That was the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia, not the flag of the Confederacy. It was designed to look sufficiently different from the American flag for Confederate generals to tell which units were friends or foes in the smoke of battle, after confusion