EDITOR:

I enjoyed your article about this museum (Battle brews over Confederate flags at Nash Farm museum in Hampton), but I am disturbed that in 2017 the concern about Confederate flags would close a museum.

The flags in and around this museum and others like it do not worry me; its history. The saying, lest we forget, has special meaning to me, maybe a bit more than to others as Im Jewish and we take that comment very seriously.

There is a strong history in our time, remembering the slave camps of the Egyptian Pharaohs and the death camps of the Nazis where I lost many family members; fortunately not all.

Im also offended as a 90 percent disabled veteran who served 25 years on active duty to assure Americas freedoms, such as freedom of speech.

Howard May

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Master Sergeant, U.S. Air Force (Retired)

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