respect and value that comes out once we raise that flag. There's a level of gratitude, a level of you're not alone." Being a veteran isn't a requirement of joining Patriotic Gentlemen of Iowa.

Then, through streets in Pella and Pleasantville ... Kaufmann told the Cedar Rapids Gazette he was "disgusted" by the flags. Iowa's governor described the Confederate flags' presence in the ...

Terry Branstad called the Confederate flag display in an Iowa parade “just wrong and disrespectful ... Kaufmann, a history professor, said word of the Pella display angered him because ...