Regarding your report on the removal of the Confederate flag from the gift shop at Antietam Battlefield National Park, I have a solution:
Replace the familiar Confederate battle flag of Northern Virginia, which has so much historical baggage, with the original national flag of the Confederacy ("Antietam, other parks stop selling items with the Confederate flag," June 25).
This flag was in use by the Confederate states for the longest period of time.
It consists of three horizontal stripes of equal height, alternating red and white, with a blue square in the top left. In that square are white five-pointed stars — seven at first, later 13 — of equal size arranged in a circle.
Lorraine Curtis, Baltimore