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Federal outlets and some of the southern republicans that pressed for it saying what they were trying to do is put into law what had been existing national park practice that where the national park service owns some cemeteries where there are civil war era dead buried and they would use small flags, not racing it on a flag pole but decorating the grave site on a particular day to commemorate confederate soldiers. for that limited purpose they wanted this put into law. as you saw and we have reported that was another flashpoint in this whole debate over the use of that emblem and some democrats are now saying they want to see the mississippi state flag which includes the confederate battle flag as part of its overall emblem also removed from the capitol. in limited places. like member who represents mississippi could choose to put that flag in front of his ore hr office but not public spaces and ....