Knee Deep in the Hooah!

Found this at RN today and wanted to spread the news. I have read more articles like this over the past few years. It makes me wonder the mindset and value system of the punks who do these things. Are they making a statement of disrespect to bigger men in general or are they just stupid and mindless vandals who just spread misery to people who are in their path?

Former Marine’s front-porch flag display is torched
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
By AVI SELK
dallasnews.com

EXCERPT

When Ed Jordan hung two flags from his front porch, one for his country and one for the Marine Corps he once served in, he thought no one would take issue with his gesture to honor the troops during the Fourth of July. He returned home from an errand Monday morning to find the flags burned, their cinders scattered amid his azaleas. The 70-year-old veteran was shocked when police told him that a flag at another house in his quiet neighborhood just north of Valley View Mall was also incinerated.

“I’d have given them the flags if they wanted them,” he said, spreading a handful of remains out on his coffee table. “But to just burn them – I don’t understand that at all.” A sooty sliver of red and white was all that remained of the American flag. Another that had depicted a famous photograph of Marines at Iwo Jima had been reduced to shreds of melted nylon.

Jordan said he enlisted in the Marines out of high school and served as a corporal at Camp Pendleton, Calif., in the 1950s. “When I was on active duty, the flag always meant something to me,” he said. “I’d always take pride when I saw it flying in civilian areas.” How others could take offense at the same sight was beyond his understanding. “When you damage something that so many have died for, the symbol it represents, that, to me, is intolerable,” he said.

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