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Local Georgia Group Threatens Lawsuit To Return Confederate Flag

Heritage or hate? That's the controversy that continues to swirl around the confederate flag.

And now one Georgia organization is threatening to sue. They want the Ringgold City Council to hang the confederate flag at the historic Ringgold Depot by the middle of next week.

Back in 2005 the Ringgold City Council decided to remove the confederate flag from the Depot - now that's where many soldiers departed from to heard to the civil war. But three years after the council removed the flag, the Sons of Confederate Veterans say return the flag or else.
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