When South Carolina was in the process of removing the Confederate flag after Dylan Roof, and while watching the politicians stumble over each doing it, I heard a man on TV say it had "proudly been flown since 1962". My first thought was, 1962? Why only since 1962? I figured it had flown there since before the war. Once I found out it was their way of protesting school segregation and the civil rights movement it got me looking a little deeper and remembering the monuments I've seen.     I've traveled around a lot in the south, was even stationed in South Carolina for a couple years. One thing I noticed was all the monuments. In trips to Richmond and New Orleans you don't even have to look for them, when they're the size of a six story building they're pretty easy to spot. Not knowing the whens and whys they were put up I never gave them much thought other than their gaudiness and the oddity of wanting t