The text presents a celebration of the Confederate battle flag and the Southern cause, honoring ancestors who gave their all and many who died to keep that banner flying. It includes lines from Betty Zeitz’s “Dixie’s Heartbeat,” a commission by Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee to the Sons of Confederate Veterans entrusting them with defending the Confederate soldier’s good name, guarding his history, emulating his virtues, and perpetuating the principles and ideals for which he fought, and it closes with Jefferson Davis’s statement that nothing filled him with deeper sadness than seeing a Southern man apologize for the defense made of their inheritance.