“I didn’t know it’d be that big and that far up,” Setzer said.

Setzer also said he hadn’t heard any reactions in the surrounding area about the flag.

“It certainly sticks out, but I haven’t heard anything yet from anyone.”

Don MacFerren, a Newton resident and Vietnam War veteran, said he also doesn’t mind the flag flying.

“I’ve read a lot of stuff about the confederacy, and it gives you a completely different image of what most people thought it was,” MacFerren said. “There’s no hate in that flag whatsoever. There’s too many people that don’t know the meaning of the flag and have never taken the time to study it.”

Setzer voiced his opinion about his own understanding of the flag.

“To a lot of people, they think of that guy in South Carolina (Dylann Roof) that shot those people. But I don’t think it has anything to do with evil or slavery, but everyone has their own opinion,” Setzer said.

A federal jury sentenced Roof in January to death for killing nine black church members in a racially motivated attack in 2015, according to an Associated Press report.