Local veterans plan to place a Confederate flag this week, for the first time, on the grave of a veteran buried at Steamboat Springs Cemetery.
Confederate States of America flags have been placed for years, and possibly decades, on the graves of two Civil War veterans buried at Hayden Cemetery. U.S. Air Force veteran and longtime Hayden resident Sam Haslem said that’s never caused friction, to his knowledge.
But the new decision by Steamboat Springs veterans — after the recent discovery of a soldier’s likely history — could, on the cusp of Memorial Day weekend, raise the local profile of an issue that long has sparked protests across the South and is grounded in the nation’s history of racial conflict and civil rights movements.
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