Outpouring of support for Dallas vet whose flags were torched
They haven’t found the culprits yet who burned the U.S. and military flags of a former Marine in north Dallas this week.
But support and offers to replace the flags have poured in.
Avi Selk of the Dallas Morning News has the follow-up:
Our little story about a few front-porch flags that got burned in Far North Dallas has sparked a firestorm of attention since it ran on Tuesday.
The story, which my editor discovered from a single line in an obscure police report, (”UNK SUSP BURNED USA FLAG MOUNTED IN FRONT OF COMP RESIDENCE”) has also grabbed the attention of nearly every TV station in Dallas and the Associated Press. It’s also made the rounds on Twitter and caught the eye of conservative blogger Michelle Malkin.
Since writing the article, I’ve been contacted by soldiers, civilians, a flag manufacturer and the agent for Kid Rock — all of whom want to help replace the burned flags. An Army veteran offered up an American flag he said had been flown over several camps and bases in Iraq.
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SILENT.NO.MORE!!!
You have to wonder what we are living with.
Sad, disgusting, and criminal.
The good hearted people in this country outnumber the jerks.
PS It’s former Marine…once a Marine, always a Marine, except in the case of Murtha.. He’s definitely an EX.
It’s a shame that there are people who have such little respect for the flag that they would do this.
By any chance was Obama’s buddy Ayers in the area at that time?
Maybe some Marines will find the culprits and turn them into the police. Then again maybe not.
Disgusting.
NJ – Good call. Where’s that picture of Ayers standing on Old Glory?
Maybe some Marines will find the culprits and turn them into
the policea puddle.I know at least one Army guy who would do that job, too.
When they’re captured, those @#$%& should be sentenced to community service at the local VA Hospital!
FACE! MEET BEDPAN!
Or ACORN census workers, maybe vacationers or transplants from Berzerkeley?
THIS is what they teach our kids in school these days!!!
I say this because THEY DONT TEACH WHAT THE FLAG STANDS FOR!!!!!!!!!!!
The Men & Women who died for what the Flag stands for. All the GOOD America has done in her short History.
Burning the flag IS NOT a Freedom of Speech… It is a Capital Offence in my book.
If the FBI had combed this Marine’s front porch, would they have found Cindy Sheehan’s fingerprints? Just a thought.
Any bets on whether the criminal/traitor is a lunatic lefty or not?
Yeah, didn’t think so.
No need. The North Dallas area is full of little rich b!tches (of all genders) who suck off their parents and chant radical collectivist crap in their air-conditioned mansions. They would be capable of this kind of outrage.
Very sad. But if it had to happen, I’m glad it happened in TX. At least the little Sh_ts will have to keep looking over their shoulders…
Will this be investigated as a hate crime…???
Nah. At most, a minor property crime.
Kid Rock?
Maybe there is hope for our nation yet but it is going to take a lot more than flying a flag to take it back. It is nice to see some patriotic support shine through and actually see the light of day in the press too.
I’m sure the Tx Rangers are on the case. We (Texans) don’t take kindly to imbeciles who show disrespect.
Juvenile thugs or political anarchist, it DOES NOT matter. Wrong is wrong!!!
Well then, I blame the parents. They are paying for it now…and later!
In the meantime anybody have any updates on the punks who killed Marcus Luttrell’s dog?
They are in the criminal justice system, still making a carbon footprint, consuming oxygen.
It will be interesting to see what happens to them when the law is finished with them….
Sad state of affairs that the Great State of Texas is polluted by people who should feel more at home in New York or California
I was sure that this was going to be a story from Amherst, Massachusetts….
My next pot of coffee is dedicated to dan708 .
I would like to help–can I send the man a box of Double O, hollow points, perhaps some C-4–a claymore? Man traps are GENERALLY illegal but I would think Dallas could make an exception this once.
Don’t Tread on Me and God Bless America except for the Blue States.
Only thing better than a M A R I N E is a…
S U B M A R I N E
This would be a wonderful replacement (even though it would be from the Army) for this former US Marine. It would be really nice to establish an around the clock ambush for the little sociopaths that burned this man’s property and the symbols of those that have served and sacrifice for this nation should they try it again. A good sound beating just might teach them to respect another person’s property.
First of all, all crime involves some sort of hate. These idiots apparently hate this country.
Seconly, when caught, bring these waterheads to a VFW, or some place similar, and let a few of those great patriots who sacrificed to keep these vermin free to make their mark on them.
Here in my ultra-liberal, condescending college town, no one was flying a flag except we small majority of conservatives and veterans. Then 9/11 came and demand for flags skyrocketed. People began stealing flags from homes because they were no longer available in stores. Then the people who used to fly flags were the ones who didn’t. Not gonna let some commie punk steal my flag. They wouldn’t have been caught dead with one a week before.
These flag burners are the same type as the flag stealers.
It sounds like the flags were set on fire without taking them down. Mr. Jordan is fortunate that the rest of his house did not go up in flames with the flags.
This jerkoff should be charged with attempted arson, at the very least.
Most likely an America-hating Obama voter. Scum.
I commend all those who stepped up to help this guy.
Not many weeks ago, here in Houston, a family had decorated their home and front yard with flags, signs and bunting to welcome home their trooper from Iraq.
Some pukes came and stole everything.
There is no depth limit to the depravity of some of our people.
Somebody will brag and and snicker and then the people that hear it will brag and snicker and sooner or later it will surface who did it. Then, well better left unsaid.
when is enough, enough?
I think we’re getting closer to the answer.
Yeah, he actually attended and I think performed at the benefit concert for 9/11 at Madison Square Garden (NYC). From what I understand, he’s a patriotic guy. And not “liberal” patriotic ….from what I’ve seen.
http://nationalguardwarrior.com/
I wonder if it has anything to do with all the time he spent with Hank Jr?
Just a thought
It’s possible.
He seems to defend the flag and the Country when he’s confronted with a situation like this. Where he stands on other issues, I’m not sure. But he does seem to have a patriotic streak running through him. I say good for him if that’s true. Maybe some of his fans will see that and emulate it.
I smell infidels in my Lone Star State.
Too bad we can’t “resolve” the issue the old west way…
From a Texan: “we’re sorry”.
Seriously folks, North Dallas is NOT Texas. It’s basically a combo of California transplants and H1B Visa people from India.
Seriously, there is just about nothing “Texan” about this region. The place is over run with pukes who typically would burn American flags.
On July 2nd, 2009 at 12:30 pm, dan708 said:
If the FBI had combed this Marine’s front porch, would they have found Cindy Sheehan’s fingerprints? Just a thought.
They only place they’d find her fingerprints is inside her nose
Yeah … that guy hasn’t been through enough already. Some people make me so angry.
The only flags I’ve heard of being stolen/burned in No. Texas are U.S. flags. Never mexican flags or those from other countries. It’s really obscene to see people come in on work visas, or illegally, and the minute they find a house/apt., they run up a flag from their former country….
Tell me again what was so great about living in your homeland that you left it and moved here? Tires my you-know-what to no end.
Yes, I think it’s a hate crime. Find them and prosecute for attempted murder, as it very well could have been.
No tre. I am a veteran and can safely speak for the rest when I say that we don’t want those people around our sick veterans. As Kurtz said in Apocalypse Now
“Drop the bomb! Kill the all”
No tre. I am a veteran and can safely speak for the rest when I say that we don’t want those people around our sick veterans. As Kurtz said in Apocalypse Now
“Drop the bomb! Kill them all”
I agree. Not only do the liberals teach nothing in regard to our proud history that our flag represents, they intentionally teach kids ‘reasons’ they should be ashamed to be citizens of the USA.
Depending on whose it is… A law to ‘protect’ the flag will just stain it permanently, encourage more desecration as acts of civil disobedience and hand a victory to flag desecraters like Ayers .
Keep in mind that the idea of ‘protection’ is from nitwits like Orrin Hatch.
Not imply that our marine friend kept his flag in any thing but great shape, I think Johnny Cash said it best:
I walked through a county courthouse square,
On a park bench an old man was sitting there.
I said, “Your old courthouse is kinda run down.”
He said, “Naw, it’ll do for our little town.”
I said, “Your flagpole has leaned a little bit,
And that’s a Ragged Old Flag you got hanging on it.”
He said, “Have a seat”, and I sat down.
“Is this the first time you’ve been to our little town?”
I said, “I think it is.” He said, “I don’t like to brag,
But we’re kinda proud of that Ragged Old Flag.
“You see, we got a little hole in that flag there
When Washington took it across the Delaware.
And it got powder-burned the night Francis Scott Key
Sat watching it writing ‘Oh Say Can You See.’
And it got a bad rip in New Orleans
With Packingham and Jackson tuggin’ at its seams.
“And it almost fell at the Alamo
Beside the Texas flag, but she waved on through.
She got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville,
And she got cut again at Shiloh Hill.
There was Robert E. Lee, Beauregard, and Bragg,
And the south wind blew hard on that Ragged Old Flag.
“On Flanders Field in World War I
She got a big hole from a Bertha gun.
She turned blood red in World War II.
She hung limp and low by the time it was through.
She was in Korea and Vietnam.
She went where she was sent by her Uncle Sam.
“She waved from our ships upon the briny foam,
And now they’ve about quit waving her back here at home.
In her own good land she’s been abused–
She’s been burned, dishonored, denied, and refused.
“And the government for which she stands
Is scandalized throughout the land.
And she’s getting threadbare and wearing thin,
But she’s in good shape for the shape she’s in.
‘Cause she’s been through the fire before,
And I believe she can take a whole lot more.
“So we raise her up every morning,
Take her down every night.
We don’t let her touch the ground,
And we fold her up right.
On second thought I do like to brag,
‘Cause I’m mighty proud of that Ragged Old Flag.”