At Florida Confederate memorial, giant flag still flies, defiantly so - Los Angeles Times
By the time Marion Lambert arrived at the base of the massive Confederate battle flag he helped erect within view of Interstate 75, a small crowd had gathered. Billed as the nation’s largest Confederate flag at 50 by 30 feet, the banner flies from a 139-foot-tall flag pole at the manicured Confederate Memorial Park. Wilson, who had met Lambert at a Sons of Confederate Veterans meeting years earlier, had donated money to help create the memorial. He wore a Confederate flag ring, belt, hunting cap and a T-shirt that read “It ain't over. “I don’t know how it just happened overnight,” Wilson said of the backlash against the flag, adding that he intended to keep selling flags at local festivals as a sideline. Lambert and the Sons of Confederate Veterans built the park after raising $150,000 six years ago. Public sentiment has turned against the Confederate flag in the wake of the shooting of nine African American church members in Charleston, S. C. , on June 17, and the arrest of a self-described white supremacist. Public officials have called for the removal of Confederate battle flags, memorials and monuments across the country. Source: www.latimes.com
