Oh, and by the way, in that same letter, William Porcher Miles wrote that the Confederate flag’s saltire represented “strength and progress” because the word saltire comes from the Latin for “I leap” — which, again, I can’t help but find ridiculously ironic, to characterize an entity whose sole purpose was to prevent progress as “progressive”.
Oh, and by the way, in that same letter, William Porcher Miles wrote that the Confederate flag’s saltire represented “strength and progress” because the word saltire comes from the Latin for “I leap” — which, again, I can’t help but find ridiculously ironic, to characterize an entity whose sole purpose was to prevent progress as “progressive”.