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Like the story out of Virginia, a huge Confederate flag was raised over the southbound side of Interstate 65 in Verbena, Ala., north of Montgomery in 2005. AP photo.

A group in Virginia called the Virginia Flaggers have won their battle to install a 50-foot-tall and 15-feet-wide confederate flag along I-95 just south of Richmond.

"The flag will serve to welcome visitors and commuters to Richmond, and remind them of our honorable Confederate history and heritage," Susan Hathaway of the Va. Flaggers

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The project cost about $3,000 through donations but "donations are NOT tax deductible as we have vowed to NEVER have the burden of 501c3 status to prevent us from fighting the good fight to defend our Confederate ancestors," according to the group's

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The Museum of the Confederacy in Appomattox and Richmond's Virginia Museum of Fine Arts had protested the display of the flag.

The flag will be unveiled on September 28.

A town called Verbena just north of Montgomery, Alabama experienced a

when a huge flag was erected on I-65 by the Sons of Confederate Veterans.