accredited museum so how we interpret and exhibit are very important to us. we could do it two ways as the last flag that came off the state house but we think we should probably do something to memorialize the 21,000 south carolinians that died in the american civil war. >> reporter: this has been a very divisive issue, a passionate issue. a lot of people feel strongly about it. >> absolutely. >> reporter: you were is he ceremony, your impressions? >> i was very conscious of that. what we hope to do is to end any division, to bring it back together and we want to do what's right for the flag and for the state and for all citizens of south carolina. >> allen robertson with the south carolina confederate relic room -- >> a long name. >> reporter: lots of emotion surrounding this. the flag has come down for the first time off state grounds since 1961. we're live here in its new home. john, kate? >> nick, thank you very much.