This equates the brave sons and daughters of the Confederacy to the terrorists of 9/11, and the blood-thirsty minions of the Rising Sun. The only union forces killed at Ft. Sumter were by accident...
PC gone wild...
I believe that the only fatality on Fort Sumter was a mule or horse. No soldier was killed or even seriously hurt. The Confederate commander who opened fire was Beauregard, who had only shortly before been the gunnery instructor at West Point for the Union commander, Major Robert Anderson.
I also believe that Beauregard had offered the chance to the Union soldiers on Ft. Sumter the option of leaving peaceably....which the Union Major Anderson declined even though he had zero chance of holding the fort. In other words the Union Major wanted to precipitate a shelling onto a fort that he knew damn well he was going to surrender after a few hours of safely huddling deep in the brick walls.
Of course, this course of action would help the Union commander's promotion career. But I'm sure he didn't let this enter into his decision to precipitate the shelling! (Which is not to say that Beauregard was any less of an idiot for commencing it. For the South to fire the first shot was just what Lincoln wanted. )
At 2:00 p.m. of April 14, according to the generous surrender terms given by the Southerners, Maj. Anderson's gunners were allowed to fire a 100-gun salute before being rowed out to the waiting Union ships. The 100-gun salute was cut to a 50-gun salute after two of the gunners were killed and mortally wounded by their own cannon.
http://www.us-civilwar.com/sumter.htm
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
To amend Article 1 of Chapter 3 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the state flag and other flags, so as to provide a statement of intent; to provide that no flag which is similar in appearance to or depicts an image of a flag or other symbol identified with any nation or entity which has ever declared or prosecuted a war against the United States of America shall be considered an official state symbol or be flown or displayed on any state property or institution; to provide an exception for museum display; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION 1.
Article 1 of Chapter 3 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the state flag and other flags, is amended by inserting at the end thereof the following:
"50-3-12.
(a) The United States of America has on several occasions been brutally attacked without provocation by her enemies. On September 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked American civilian aircraft and flew them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a brutal surprise attack against American forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. On April 12, 1861, gunners of what would evolve into the Army of the Confederate States of America bombarded and ultimately forced the capitulation of a United States garrison at Fort Sumter, South Carolina. The General Assembly is proud of the fact that Georgia was one of the thirteen states that founded the United States of America and today stands proud in her defense against all enemies. It is the intent of the General Assembly that no symbol identified with a nation or entity that has ever prosecuted a war against our beloved country ever be a part of our state image.
(b) Any other provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, on and after July 1, 2003, no flag or banner which is substantially similar in appearance to or which depicts the image of a flag or other symbol identified with any nation or entity which has ever declared or prosecuted a war against the United States of America shall be considered an official state symbol. No such flag or banner shall be flown or displayed on any state property or institution; provided, however, that this subsection shall not prohibit the display of historic flags in a bona fide museum setting on state property."
SECTION 2.
All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.