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Historic cemeteries want to leave Confederate flag out of Memorial Day honors May 30 2021
Policy adopted in October 2020 recommends against placing controversial flag on graves of Confederate veterans buried in Oregon.
Monday, May 31, will be the first Memorial Day after a state commission agreed last fall to a policy discouraging display of the Confederate battle flag in historic cemeteries, where thousands of Civil War veterans are buried.
In October, Oregon s Commission on Historic Cemeteries adopted a position paper recommending the cemetery groups avoid displaying the battle flag on graves at the state s nearly 1,400 historic cemeteries. The commission s decision on the controversial flag is only advisory. It cannot require cemetery organizations to prevent the Confederate flag from being displayed.