Confederate flag gets even bigger

TAMPA - The largest Confederate flag in the world has grown by 10 feet.

Members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans unfurled the bigger flag Sunday, which is located on private property at the junction of Interstates 4 and 75.

It's now 30-by-60-feet, compared to the previous 50 feet the "Stars and Bars" used to wave in the wind over Hillsborough County's two major highways.

So why a new flag?

The old one, which went up in June, will be sold in pieces on eBay to help pay for a memorial, said Marion Lambert, spokesman for the Florida Sons of Confederate Veterans. The $100,000 monument, made of 16-tons of granite, will be adorned with brass plaques honoring Confederate veterans.

"It's flying very large, very big and very red," Lambert said. "I think it can go quite a bit bigger, though."

- Chandra Broadwater, Times staff writer