Monday, October 30, 2006
Vandals Destroy Patriotic Display
And more from Capital 9 News:
Susan Hoffman owns Wit's End Giftique in Clifton Park. In honor of our troops serving overseas, she displays a mammoth American flag, 20 by 40 feet, on the west wall of her building which faces the heavily-traveled Northway. Sometime over the weekend, the flag was vandalized.
Hoffman said, "It disgusts me. It absolutely disgusts me. It's outrageous that someone would do this to our flag. We have men and women fighting to defend our flag and then some person does this."
Hoffman understands that everyone has his own political views, but she said desecrating the flag is inexcusable.
The desecration didn't stop at Wit's End. Just down the road in Halfmoon at the American Legion, another phallic symbol was painted in the same green paint on a fence behind the legion's war memorial.
Former Mohawk Post Commander Robert Dyer said, "It's a memorial to deceased veterans. What happened at Wit's End is even worse. It's desecration of the American Flag. I feel that the politicians who don't favor protecting our flag are dead wrong."
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